Impressions and observations of a trip to Tenerife
"The famous astronomer Jean Mascart of the Paris Observatory came to Tenerife in 1910 along with other scientists to carry out various studies, including the...
Impressive images of the Ring Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
An international team of astronomers, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias are taking part, share the intricate and delicate...
Ionized gas kinematics and massive star formation in NGC 1530
Abstract. We present emission line mapping of the strongly barred galaxy NGC 1530 obtained using Fabry-P´erot interferometry in Hα, at significantly enhanced...
JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”
The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...
JO PULS: “One of the current prime challenges is the evolution of massive binaries”
His interest about the radiative transfer began in a lecture about "Stellar Atmospheres" he attended when he was studying his Physics degree. He was previously...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the woman who discovered pulsars
When Jocelyn Bell Burnell failed an important exam at the age of 10 she did not expect to become one of the most relevant figures in astronomy. Nor when she...
JOSÉ LULL: "The Egyptian astronomers used to observe from the terraces of the temples and palaces"
José Lull knows a lot about the royal Egyptian tombs of the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period. In fact this was the theme of the doctoral thesis –...
La existencia de vida fuera de la Tierra ha sido un tema de interés para el ser humano desde sus orígenes. En la actualidad nos podemos plantear su búsqueda...
La exposición “100 Lunas cuadradas” viaja a Japón y a Bruselas
Desde la cumbre de Tenerife hasta el país del Sol naciente pasando por la capital administrativa de la Unión Europea. La exposición “100 Lunas cuadradas”...