{"title": "Den Himmel erforschen", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Collegium Helveticum", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["science/astronomy", "history"], "description": "\"Den Himmel erforschen\" is a permanent exhibition in the foyer of the historic Semper-Sternwarte in Zurich. It displays astronomical instruments from the collection of Rudolf Wolf, the observatory's founder and first director of the ETH observatory, who collected everything on the subject of astronomy. Around 300 of his objects, including sundials, astrolabes and graphometers, belong today to the ETH Library's collection of scientific instruments and teaching aids, and the exhibition also shows the telescope Wolf used to count sunspots. The exhibition is available in German and English as well as in simple language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/den-himmel-erforschen-59654/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbda97863d50645aaaccad0516f95a8dcad3e735753f1107fb67b9a11fede643-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Collegium Helveticum", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Den Himmel erforschen – Führung durch die Semper-Sternwarte", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH-Hauptgebäude", "address": "Rämistr. 101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/history-of-science", "science/astronomy"], "description": "This guided tour takes you to the Semper Observatory, built in the 1860s by architect Gottfried Semper. You will discover an architectural gem in the centre of Zurich and explore a piece of scientific history. Already in the 19th century sunspots were studied from the dome, and generations of researchers have gazed from here into the vastness of space. The tour is led by Dorothea Zimmermann and Roberta Spano from the Collection of Scientific Instruments and Teaching Aids of ETH Zurich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/den-himmel-erforschen-fuhrung-durch-die-semper-sternwarte-68921/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/den-himmel-erforschen.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ca945b7076adcff77343033d905858c34f6a9c61198d3417c4b8ecf1a4bb4f0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Planetariumsshow: Sternbilder und Mythologie", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "The planetarium show \"Sternbilder und Mythologie\" takes the audience on a live journey through the night sky. 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. The show lasts 45 minutes, is in German and suitable for everyone aged 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/planetariumsshow-sternbilder-und-mythologie-68926/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/sternbilder-und-mythologie.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9087f560027bffed030072e6b0f1c5c3b651a07b0f46edb6aa699296fcd7432-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Planetariumsshow: Ein neues Weltbild", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "\"Ein neues Weltbild\" is a planetarium show about the birth of modern astronomy. It is presented live by Urs Scheifele and Matthias Hofer, who run the mobile Planetarium Zürich. The show tells how in 1609 Galileo Galilei first turned his telescope to the sky, discovering mountains on the Moon, the phases of Venus and moons circling Jupiter, while Kepler that same year published his first two laws of planetary motion. From the ancient view of the world to today's astronomy, the Earth gains a new place in the universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/planetariumsshow-ein-neues-weltbild-68925/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/ein-neues-weltbild.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed771e53ed33eddda14ab7e276ae85564280c9dfd3758d243895fb06130d75f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Modelle – Wissen formen", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/history-of-science"], "description": "\"Modelle – Wissen formen\" is an exhibition with more than 500 historical and current models, many shown to the public for the first time. The pieces come from the collections of ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich. 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There are also entertaining formats like «BLACK BOX» and «Cook the Science», the trained four-legged robot LunarLeaper, the student-built Mars rover CRATER, guided tours, planetarium shows and workshops for children and young people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/wow2-space-mensch-und-all-73722/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Ins All und zurück", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH-Hauptgebäude", "address": "Rämistr. 101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "A guided tour that takes participants on a journey from Earth into space and back. It is offered by ETH Zurich as part of meet ETH and features, among other things, the ETH-LIFE mission searching for life beyond our solar system, the LunarLeaper on the Moon, the remotely operated Haptic Device, and the student-built Mars rover CRATER. On the way back, participants get a new view of Earth, and on board is ArboSat, densified wood that could make satellite construction more sustainable. The tour lasts 60 minutes and is suitable for adults and young people aged 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ins-all-und-zuruck-68936/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/ins-all-und-zurueck.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/984bdca09e38be6c8606c2f9e12fa138e625da942a45ff7557e3f12ced3288b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Planetariumsshow: Unser Sonnensystem", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00+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/solar-system"], "description": "'Unser Sonnensystem' is a planetarium show taking place in a lecture hall at ETH Zürich, with no registration needed. The mobile Planetarium Zürich is run by Urs Scheifele and Matthias Hofer, who lead all shows live. 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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