If asteroids do not emit light, a source of primordial information in Astrophysics, how are their properties studied? Karri Muinonen, professor of astronomy at the University of Helsinki (Finland), is precisely a specialist in the physical characterization of these small bodies, key to know the origin and evolution of the Solar System. For this reason, at the XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), this researcher will explain how they are analyzed, both from Earth and from space. By Elena Mora (IAC) “Near-Earth

The Universitary Institute of France, where an international jury values ​​the quality of the research presented, accepted his project to improve the understanding in the formation of giant planets and their satellites as part of the search for a habitable world orbiting another star different from the Sun. For this reason, Aurélien Crida, from the Physics department of the University of Nice Sophia-antipolis and the Lagrange laboratory of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, is currently in Tenerife as a guest lecturer of the XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by

El Cabildo de La Palma, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y la Fundación Starlight abordan los preparativos de este importante encuentro científico, así como del resto del programa de actividades que tendrá lugar en abril del próximo año

Before getting his PhD in Astronomy and Planetary Science at the University of Aix-Marseille, Sebastien Besse studied Natural Sciences, but gradually he specialized in the geology of the bodies of the Solar System and in spectroscopy. After working in the University of Maryland (EEUU) and the headquarters of the European Space Agency (ESA) in The Hague (The Netherlands), he continues investigating his favorite subjects: the Moon, Mercury, minor bodies, spectroscopy and geology of the Solar System... Since last year, he is in the European Center for Space Astronomy (ESAC), ESA headquarters in

Alejandro Cardesín knows what he is talking about when you ask him about space missions. He has been working for ten years in the European Space Agency (ESA), involved in several projects studying the Solar System, including the Rosetta mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and Venus Express. At the present time, this telecommunications engineer is part of the projects to explore Mars, such as Mars Express and Exo Mars, which was put into orbit around the red planet a few weeks ago. One of its objectives will be to examine the conditions for the development of life on the planet. But his

Since he was a PhD student dealing with the volcanism of Io, one of Jupiter's satellites, he has been constantly trying to get to know the coldest and distant objects in the Solar System by space missions Spitzer, Herschel, and the future James Webb Space Telescope. The confines of our planetary system and the instruments on board space satellites are the specialty of John Stansberry, researcher of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), in the United States, and lecturer of the XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics , organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias