An Astronomy special lecture on “The cradle of young and massive stars” is to be held on 15th July (Saturday) from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm at the Sri Lanka Planetarium.

This lecture is conducted by Dr. Elena Terlevich who earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has worked at the University of Sussex, Royal Greenwich Observatory and in the Institute of Astronomy Cambridge. Currently she is working at the Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in México. She also has published more than 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals that receive more than 4600 citations to date and has supervised several Masters and PhD Theses.

All Astronomy lovers and enthusiasts are welcome.

If you need further information regarding this program please contact 077 – 2723283 (Nalaka Abeysekera).

“Astro Kids” Astronomy Program for Little Children :

Applications are called for the second intake of the “Astro Kids” Astronomy program at the Sri Lanka Planetarium. This program is specially designed for little children who are enthusiastic about Astronomy in the age group of 5 to 10 years.

Starting date    : 11.02.2017
Time                 : 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon
Venue               : Sri Lanka Planetarium

Applications for this program can be downloaded from here or can be obtained from the Planetarium office.

Duly filled applications should be handed over to the Planetarium office on or before 09.02.2017.
Selected kids will be notified by telephone.

This program will be held free of charge on every Saturday at the above mentioned time. Kindly consider only 20 children is the maximum intake for the program.

For further information in this regard please contact 011-2586499 or 077-2723283.

Sri Lanka Planetarium