The Nobel prizewinners in Physics, Robert Wilson and John Mather,  and in Chemistry, Harold Kroto, together with Robert Williams, astrophysicist and former President of the IAU, gave answers this morning (for last Friday) questions from the general public in a meeting organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, belonging to the Museos de Tenerife, following a visit to the headquarters of the IAC in La Laguna. "If you had a magic wand, what would be the best present you could give to a boy or girl to encourage them to take up a

The invited speakers- Robert Wilson, Harold Kroto, and John Mather, with answer questions from the audience, especially questions from university students

STARMUS BEGINS

As autumn began. with it came STARMUS, the multidisciplinary festival combining art, musio, astrophysics and space science, with which the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the IAC, is collaborating

The audiovisual presentation, designed to be projected in domes and planetaria has been designed by CETA-CIEMAT, IAC, and Eurocosmos, as part of a scientific popularization programme financed by the FECYT "Exploring the Solar System" makes available to the general public material which has previously been seen only through telescopes or via space probes; it will be distributed free of charge to any planetarium or projection theatre which asks for it. "Exploring the Solar System" will be shown in the majority of the planetaria in Spain, both fixed and mobile, so that it will be seen by an

This is what cosmologists and philosophers talk about when they get together.