🧵Why Organise an Event for #UNESCO #lightday2026?
Every year the International Day of Light (IDL) provides a perfect platform to honour the technological, physical, social and artistic uses of light💡
📷Quote: Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO for #lightday2025
#quantum #generations #quantal #arts #sciences #youth #visions #quanta #lights #QuantaLights @unesco.org @unyouthaffairs.bsky.social @worldquantumday.bsky.social @idlofficial.bsky.social #UNESCO #Youth #Youth2030 #QuantumYear #WorldQuantumDay #lightday2025 #LightForChange
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🧵🌟 A Big Thank YOU to our incredible community! 🌟
We are truly grateful to all the passionate event organisers and participants for your tremendous effort in making the 8th edition of @unesco.org #lightday2025 a grand success!
This contest reminded us that light isn’t just a physical phenomenon — it’s inspiration, innovation, and imagination.
Until next time, keep your lens on the wonder around you. 🌟
@idlofficial.bsky.social @optica.org @spie.org @worldquantumday.bsky.social
#lightday2025
🪐 IDL Photo Contest
🥇 1st Place – Adrine Torosyan
This photo captures a stunning close-up of a CD surface reflecting a vivid rainbow. 💿🌈
The interplay of light and technology beautifully symbolizes the fusion of science and art. 🔬
#lightday2025 @idlofficial.bsky.social @optica.org @spie.org
💡 You're Invited to Celebrate the 2025 International Day of Light! Join us on Sunday, June 1, at the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium for a FREE, family-friendly celebration of light, science, and discovery!
🔗 Learn more: https://www.aztechcouncil.org/event/2025-idl/
#lightday2025
🪐 IDL Photo Contest – Celebrating Light in All Its Wonder
🥈 2nd Place – Nare Hovsepyan
A thoughtful composition of Mount Ararat reflected in a car mirror — capturing both journey and memory, past and future, all in one powerful shot.
@idlofficial.bsky.social @optica.org @spie.org #lightday2025
But wait...there's more! Over #LightDay2025, we received an extraordinary response from Optica Student Chapters from around the world.
The response was so great that we couldn't include every event in one thread, so we made a page for even more! 👉
www.optica.org/history/mile...
One by BYU for SiO2 bottom right cleanroom.byu.edu/color_chart . The latter also shows the effect of the intensity of the illuminating source. The source for the dryer drum photos was natural skylight. #lightday2025 @idlofficial.bsky.social @ausphysics.bsky.social @optica.org
🚨 You can STILL register your events for #lightday2025 even if they are held later this year or you missed! 💡🎉
📥 www.lightday.org/events
And don’t forget to tag us – we love to share your efforts! 🤩
From the quantum scale to the stars, from biology to imagination — light keeps inspiring us. ⭐️
@optica.org @idlofficial.bsky.social @spie.org @ekarimi.bsky.social @unesco.org @worldquantumday.bsky.social
#lightday2025
From lenses to lasers — science came alive through experience. 💡
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#lightday2025
A wee bit late, but happy lasers day!
#LightDay2025
Break time is over!
With fresh perspectives from their #LightDay2025 session, the Optica students at Paderborn let us know that they're eager to inspire new students to enter the quantum field and expand the optics community at Paderborn!
#LightDay2025 is far from over.
And the International Year of Quantum is far, FAR from over - that's why the University of Bristol Optica students are celebrating how critical quantum tech and science are for sensing, metrology, communications, and more.
Can you call it a watch party without pizza?
Take a look at how the Vrije Universiteit Brussel celebrated #LightDay2025 with a party exploring the latest advancements in quantum optics!
We're not done yet!
The Multimedia University of Kenya Optica Student Chapter held engaging lectures, interactive sessions, and informal presentations highlighting key takeaways from the watch party.
How has your #LightDay2025 been?
Horses running with the sun low in the sky behind them. Text on the image reads, "Enter the SPIE IDL Photo Contest" and " Submissions due 16 September. Photo credit: Haiping Huang.
Happy International Day of Light to the global #optics and #photonics community! 🎉
📸 The 2025 #SPIE IDL photo contest is open. Submit your photos demonstrating the impact of light for a chance to win cash prizes! spie.org/community-s...
@idlofficial.bsky.social #lightday2025
A colorful blue and pink sunset sky above Vera C. Rubin Observatory at its home on Cerro Pachón in Chile.
Happy International Day of Light💡
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will #CaptureTheCosmos in a range of wavelengths of light like...
🌈Visible: the colors we see
🕶️Ultraviolet: high-energy light invisible to our eyes
🔥Infrared: low-energy light that's also invisible
#lightday2025 🔭🧪
Thanks a lot, @optica.org ! Honored to be part of #LightDay2025 – the journey’s just beginning! 🌟
A big shout-out to the incredible students at @radiantminds.bsky.social! RAU kicked off their celebration of #LightDay2025 in style, but they're just getting started. 😎
There’s more to look forward to at the upcoming IDL Radiant Minds session on 17 May!
The NorthCap University chapter hosted optics expert R.P. Tandon for their #LightDay2025 party!
Tandon shared key insights into the International Day of Light and its connection with the beginning of modern photonics - the first successful operation of the laser by Theodore Maiman on 16 May 1960.
Happy #LightDay2025! Celebrate by exploring the latest #Optics research:
🌟Roadmap on specialty optical fibers: ow.ly/br1B50VRNxy
🌟2025 photonics for agrifood roadmap: ow.ly/Ajfb50VRNxz
🌟Journal of Optics 25th Anniversary Collection: ow.ly/eNWH50VRNxv
#Photonics
Its time to celebrate #LightDay2025!
OPN is highlighting work that showcases what it is like to work in optics and the incredible ways light science is driving scientific and technological advances!
Check it out 👉 bit.ly/4j9Xhj4 💡🧪⚛️
Happy International Day of Light! ☀️✨
Tomorrow: Qwave — From Photons to the Stars! 🚀
Let’s explore the universe of light together! ⏳🌌
Crafted by us 🌈
@idlofficial.bsky.social @optica.org @spie.org @worldquantumday.bsky.social
#IDL2025 #Qwave #lightday2025
In celebration of today's #InternationalDayofLight, we're investigating the phenomena of solar sneezing.
#lightday2025
Happy International Day of Light! #lightday2025
💡 Happy International Day of Light! Today we celebrate the vital role light plays in technology, science, culture, education, and sustainable development. From advancing technology to inspiring art, light connects and empowers us all.
#lightday2025 #Science #Innovation #Photonics #Fotoniikka
