{"title": "BLACK BOX – Space Science Comedy Show (wow²)", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["science/astronomy", "comedy"], "description": "'BLACK BOX Space Science Comedy Show with Karpi and Mirko' is a science comedy show for adults. Comedians Patrick Karpiczenko and Dr. Mirko Bischofberger host the evening. It tackles big questions about the universe: what the Earth and we ourselves are made of, how planets form, antimatter and the hunt for dark matter. 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The journey starts at the dwarf planet Pluto, passes the gas giants, crosses the dangerous planetoid belt to the inner planets and finally ends at the Sun. Along the way it shows how the planets' movements led to the greatest mistake in the history of astronomy. 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Hosting the evening is drag queen Klamydia von Karma, aka Dr. Anis Meschichi, who takes the audience on an extravagant scientific journey. Scientists from ETH Zurich give voice to the invisible, while a rotating cast of burlesque performers, drag artists and musicians from across Europe transforms scientific wonders into a spectacle of sensuality and emotion. 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Urs Scheifele and Matthias Hofer, operators of the mobile Planetarium Zürich, show how people have always connected stars into figures and seen animals, heroes and deities in them. Visitors discover the Great Bear circling the celestial north pole without ever setting, and learn where the most beautiful double stars, nebulae and galaxies can be found. 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Behind it is aerospace engineer Deborah Müller, who works at ETH Zürich Space and is the Swiss delegate to the European Space Agency (ESA), assisted by ETH researcher Elias Mulky. It explores how rockets, satellites and people work together to make a space mission succeed, and what can go wrong along the way. The 45-minute lecture is in German, with no registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kindervorlesung-vom-amazonas-in-den-weltraum-68922/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/vom-amazonas-in-den-weltraum.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f52b18b721b7b6087837ee054d15d0eeaace2249bf158671851b02a64399bc76-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Planetariumsshow: Reise zum Mond", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "A live planetarium show for everyone aged 7 and up, setting out to explore the Moon. Urs Scheifele and Matthias Hofer, operators of the mobile Planetarium Zürich, guide through the 45-minute show in lecture hall F 5. It explains why the Moon is sometimes visible by day and sometimes at night and why its shape keeps changing. Through the telescope you look at huge craters, fly to the Moon and around the solar system, and watch a total solar eclipse that will next be possible in Switzerland only in 2081.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/planetariumsshow-reise-zum-mond-68941/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/reise-zum-mond.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b809aba3af787f684682c71507885e2ed5762fa3b8baaa04b9f09b9010abfce-2000.webp"}, {"title": "XENON", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Science Pavilion UZH", "address": "Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": [], "description": "A special exhibition about the XENON experiment and the search for dark matter. The University of Zurich is involved in the international experiments and shows the detector that was developed and built at UZH, whose interior is filled with liquid xenon. The research takes place deep underground – why and how that is can be discovered here above ground. It raises questions such as: What makes up most of our universe, and what influences the motion of entire galaxies even though it cannot be seen?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/xenon-59629/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/507c48c0616bef6e3deb09b772ab30bf15afd36a489fb0e8c82116a12048faff-2000.webp"}]}