Astronomy for Public

I love gazing at stars since I was a child. That is why I studied Physics at university. During my master's I was the head of Ayaz, the amateur astronomy group in my hometown, Tabriz, Iran. We had regular sky observations and I also taught astronomy to the age group of 8 to 18. I still do not lose any chance of sky observation and promoting astronomy in public.

In the following, you can find my activities in Astronomy for the public.

Judge: NASA Space App, Waterloo, Canada, 5 Oct. 2025
Talk: Astronomy and Sustainable Development Goals, Partnerships to Advance Sustainable Development and Social Justice Goals in Waterloo Region and Beyond, Canada, 1 Oct. 2025
Speaker: Soapbox Event, University of Toronto, Canada, 27 Sep. 2025
Talk: First three Minutes, Kitchener Public Library, Canada, 24 Sep. 2025
Article: A Room Full of Women+ Physicists: Reflections from Women+ in Physics Canada 2025, Sep. 2025
Organizer: Falling Walls Lab, Toronto, Canada, 14 Aug. 2025
Article: Our Shared Nightlight: The Moon Belongs to All of Us, Jul. 2025
Article: 14 Billion Candles: A Cosmologist's Soapbox Journey, Jun. 2025
Judge: SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival, Germany, Jun. 2025
Speaker: Soapbox Event, Waterloo University, Canada, 25 May 2025
Article: Hubble at 35: The Eye of Humanity, 15 May 2025
Interview: Meet a Scientist, Science Fuse/Spark your neurons Group, 29 Jan. 2022 (Video)
Talk: Education System in Iran, CINVESTAV, Mexico, 8 Sep. 2022
Talk: Dark Sides of Our Universe, International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting, Global Young Academy, 2022 (Video)
Article: The communities using astronomy to bring tourism to their region, BBC StoryWorks, 2021

Activities in Iran:

Talk: Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 28 May 2022 علوم پایه برای توسعه پایدار، دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان، ۷ خرداد ۱۴۰۱
Talk: Women in Physics, 24th Physics School, IASBS, Iran, 4 Feb. 2019
Talk: What we know and what we do not know about our Universe, 18 Jul. 2021 همه آنچه از کیهان می‌دانیم و نمی‌دانیم، کرسی ترویج علم یونسکو،۲۷ تیر ۱۴۰۰

Talk: Dark Secrets of the Universe: Physics Nobel Prize 2020, 15 Nov. 2020 (Video) رازهای تاریک کیهان: جایزه نوبل فیزیک ۲۰۲۰، معلمان فیزیک کشور
Talk: From Hydrogen to Uranium: Origin of Elements in the Universe, 17 Jun. 2021 از هیدروژن تا اورانیوم: منشا عناصر در کیهان، باشگاه فیزیک تهران، ۳ خرداد ۱۴۰۰ (Video)
Talk: سیاهچاله‌های اولیه: کاندیدای ماده‌ تاریک در چارچوب مدل استاندارد کیهان‌شناسی، گروه ژرفا، انجمن نجوم دانشگاه خوارزمی (Video)
Talk: Transit of Inner Planets, Transit of Mercury Workshop, IASBS, Iran, 11 Nov. 2019
Talk: The Sky from the Perspective of a Cosmologist, Monthly Astronomy Club of the Astronomy Society for Public, Tehran University, Iran, 18 Sep. 2019 آسمان از دید یک کیهانشناس، باشگاه فیزیک دانشگاه تهران، ۲۷ شهریور ۱۳۹۸
Talk: "Girl Astronomers" Meeting, Tehran, Iran, 3 May 2019 همایش دختران منجم، ۱۳ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۸
Video: "Astronomy Day 2020" روز نجوم ۱۳۹۹
live Instagram: Physic Nobel Prize 2020 and Black Holes, "A Guide to Galactic Travelers" Program, 18 Jun. 2020 جایزه نوبل فیزیک ۲۰۲۰ و سیاهچاله‌ها
live Instagram: Amateur and Professional Astronomy, Iran Space Agancy, 2021 نجوم حرفه‌ای و آماتوری، سازمان فضایی ایران، مهر ۱۴۰۰
Interview: Solar Eclipse in June 2020, Shahrvand newspaper آخرین کسوف قرن بر عرشه بوم، مجله شهروند

Iranian Women Astronomers (IWA), 2021

شاخه بانوان انجمن نجوم ایران (شبانا)، ۱۴۰۰

In March 2021, I was elected as the only female on the board of directors of the Astronomical Society of Iran since its establishment, and in October, I founded its women's branch by focusing on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

The IWA won the Champion of WSIS Prizes 2022 (Category 4 Capacity Building), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

The IWA also participated in the "Global Women Breakfast" event of the IUPAC in 2022.

IWA is coming soon!
"Girls of Sun" are coming!
Introduction to the IWA (in Persian) معرفی شبانا، ۱۸ مهر ۱۴۰۰
International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Feb. 2022 پیام شبانا برای روز جهانی زنان و دختران در علم، ۲۰۲۲
Introduction to IWA, TV Program, 18 Dec. 2021 معرفی شبانا در شبکه ۴ سیما، ۲۷ آذر ۱۴۰۰
نشست شاخه بانوان انجمن نجوم ایران، دانشگاه مازندران، ۲۷ بهمن۱۴۰۰

Iranian Women Astronomers' Day, 9 Nov. 2022

روز زنان منجم ایران، ۱۸ آبان ۱۴۰۰

For the first time in the history of science in Iran, we named the birthday of Dr. Alinoush Terian, mother of the Modern Astronomy of Iran, the "Iranian Women Astronomers' Day". 9 Nov. 2021 was her 100th birthday, and we had a special program which you can watch in the following links.

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Iranian Women Astronomers' Day ویژه برنامه روز زنان منجم ایران (Video, in Persian)

Astronomy Week in Iran, 2021

هفته نجوم ۱۴۰۰ با شعار «نجوم ۱۴۰۰؛ افق پیش‌رو»

In 2021‌‌, I organized the Astronomy Week event in Iran. The event was online and it was live-streamed every night for 2 hours. The program covered several topics including the history of astronomy, astronomical legends and myths, ancient astronomical instruments, crescent sight, the moon and its discoveries, Solar Physics, light pollution, astrophotography, astrotourism, astronomy for kids and in schools, astronomy in literature and cinema, astronomical music, how to become an astronomer. We also had two competitions: painting with the theme of light pollution and astronomy in literature.

برنامه‌های این هفته که توسط انجمن نجوم ایران از ۲۰ تا ۲۶ اردیبهشت ماه برگزار شد مباحث مختلفی از جمله تاریخ نجوم، افسانه‌ها و اساطیر نجومی، ابزارهای نجومی کهن، رویت هلال، ماه و اکتشافات آن، فیزیک خورشید، آلودگی نوری، عکاسی و گردشگری نجومی، رصدگاه‌های تاریک جهان، نجوم کودکان و دانش آموزان، نجوم در ادبیات و سینما، موسیقی نجومی، راههای ورود به نجوم آماتوری و حرفه‌ای، معرفی کتابهای نجومی را تحت پوشش قرار داد.

دو مسابقه نجومی هم اعلام شدند (۱ و ۲).

خبر این رویداد در خبرگزاریها پوشش داده شد (۱ و ۲ و ۳).

"A Guide to Galactic Travelers" Telecast

برنامه راهنمای مسافران کهکشان

I was an expert in this TV program for topics about Mars (parts 11 & 12), Saturn (part 19), and Farewell to the Solar System (last part) from Oct. 2019 till 21 Feb. 2020. The name of the program is taken from Douglas Adams' book series titled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

You can access all parts of the program here (in Persian).

Travel to the Black Hole of the Centre of our Galaxy, TV Program

سفر به سیاهچاله مرکزی کهکشان راه شیری، شبکه ۴ سیما، فروردین ۱۴۰۱ (Video, in Persian)

Solar Eclipses, 2019 & 2020

خورشیدگرفتگی، ۵ دی ۱۳۹۸ و ۱ تیر ۱۳۹۹

I was a live program expert on the solar eclipses that happened in Iran on Dec. 26, 2019, and June 21, 2020. Both events were annular eclipses; however, in Iran were seen as partial.

The solar eclipse in December 2019 was an unforgettable experience since it was at sunrise from the Persian Gulf, Kish Island, Iran.

You can access the programs here.

If you are interested in learning more about eclipses, especially the solar one, watch my interviews with the Avastar group (1 & 2 in Persian).

Do not miss this video which is about the sunrise while eclipse.

این ویدئو که خورشید در حال گرفت را در زمان طلوع نشان می‌دهد از دست ندهید.

Mercury Transit & Reopening of the IASBS Observatory, 2019

بازگشایی رصدخانه و گذر سیاره عطارد، ۲۰ آبان ۱۳۹۸

On 11 Nov. 2019, a rare astronomy event, the transit of planet Mercury happened. We had a half-day workshop for the public followed by observation. Our group at IASBS did the best observation of the event. More than 200 school students and their families participated in this event. The Avastar astronomy group from Tehran was our special guest. You can find their report (in Persian) here.

Concurrent with this rare astronomical event, the IASBS Observatory was reopened after 14 years of shutdown.

Appreciation of Astronomy Veterans of Iran, 2019

تقدیر از پیشکسوتان نجوم، ۱۱ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۷

On the first of May 2019, simultaneously with the holding of the 22nd national astronomy meeting at IASBS, I held a ceremony honoring the veterans of Iranian astronomy. In this ceremony, six veterans participated, and a report on the founders and influential people of Iranian professional and amateur astronomy was presented.

Ayaz Astronomy Group, 2004

گروه نجوم آیاز، ۱۳۸۵

My formal engagement in astronomy began in 2004, when I was an undergraduate physics student with a strong passion for astronomy. At that time, I founded an astronomy outreach group in my hometown of Tabriz, Iran. The group, named Ayaz (meaning “moon in a winter night”), quickly became one of the most active astronomy groups in the region.

During those early years, I successfully collaborated with the municipality of Tabriz to promote public science engagement. This included organizing Astronomy Day in the city’s largest public park, El-Gölü, and establishing a public astronomy program for Yalda Night—the longest night of the year and an important cultural tradition in Iran—hosted at the historic Municipality Palace of Tabriz.

One of my proudest achievements is that the students I trained during this period continue to lead the Ayaz group today. Over time, the group has evolved into a central hub for science communication in the city, engaging audiences of all ages and fostering long-term public interest in astronomy.

Article: Yalda: Longest Night of Year, Ayaz Astronomy Group, 2004 شب یلدا، گروه نجوم آیاز، ۱۳۸۵

My message to 20th Anniversary of Ayaz, Sep. 2025

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