Its short orbital period could help with future studies of biological activity.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko may seem to be a bit of a tonguetwister, and difficult to remember, but Michael Küppers, an astrophysicist who qualified at Göttingen University (Germany) spends most of his time dealing with it. From 2007 he has been at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Madrid, analyzing the data gathered by the Rosetta mission to the comet of that name. He is also a member of the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) which, if approved during the coming December, will be the first time tht a mission has the aim of investigating an asteroid

Within the framework of the XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), on Tuesday 15th November at 19h, in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos, of Museums of Tenerife, the popular talk "Rosetta, a Journey to a Comet and to our Origins" will be presented by Michael Küppers, an expert on the data analysis for this space mission. The talk, for which there is no entry charge, is in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

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