Scope: SO Outreach

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    Dimitri Gadotti: “Not seeing the complexity of everything that can alter the life of a galaxy sometimes leads to misconceptions”
    “With TIMER we could demonstrate a very beautiful idea: If we measure the ages of the stars that were born in the bar via the secular evolution processes, we...
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    Education and social awareness activities to promote the participation of women and girls in Science
    Some 40 women astronomers, engineers and technologists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from IACTEC and from other collaborating...
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    El IAC reivindica la labor de sus trabajadoras en el Día Internacional de la Mujer
    “Las mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo”, dice un proverbio chino y máxima muy presente en el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), que un año más se...
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    February 11th: an unceasing commitment to equality
    Again this year the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is showing its commitment to gender equality by organizing a large number of activities around...
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    GIUSEPPE BONO: “We are going to build the largest ground based telescope to fully exploit the Adaptive Optics capabilities”
    Giuseppe Bono, astrophysicist and associate professor of the Department of Physics at the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy), is currently...
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    JOSÉ ANTONIO DE DIEGO: “The use of tunable filters on the GTC will allow us to detect very young and active galaxies”
    This astrophysicist from the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of México (IA-UNAM) is here within the Severo Ochoa Visitors Programme...
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    MALCOLM FRIDLUND: “If we don’t look outside, we will never know if we are alone in the Universe”
    Life, as we know it, exists only on Earth. The emergence of life here may be a matter of probability or luck, but in Science there is no place for the second...
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    NOEMÍ PINILLA: “If there really is a Planet X, finding it would force to revise the models of the creation and evolution of the Solar System that didn’t include it”
    Noemí Pinilla, a researcher at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, has a very close relationship with the Instituto de Astrofísica...
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    NORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"
    Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...