Winters School: Press Room 2010

Sarbani Basu - Professor in the Department of Astronomy of Yale University
Tim Bedding - Professor in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy of the University of Sydney
Donald Kurtz - Professor at the University of Central Lancashire
Students of the XXII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics

Press Office: Annia Domenech. (annia [at] iac.es (annia[at]iac[dot]es))

Tel.: (+34) 617131448

Press Room Collaborators:

Text: Annia Domenech, Pere L. Pallé, Terry Mahoney, Nigel Moore
Images: Jorge Andrés Péres (SIE-Inv), Ramón Castro, Gabriel Pérez y Miguel Briganti (SMM/IAC)

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