The XXII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics will be held from Monday 15th to Friday 26th November at the Hotel Nivaria in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. The School's aim is to equip young scientists with an understanding of the theoretical, experimental and analytical tools used in Asteroseismology. Teaching at this twenty-second edition of the Winter School will be eight world-renowned scientists whose work has helped bring about a big leap forward in Asteroseismology. For two weeks more than thirty doctoral and post-doctoral students, from seventeen different countries

CANARY ISLANDS WINTER SCHOOLS OF ASTROPHYSICS Press Release 12/11/2010 XXII Canary Islands Winter School: Asteroseismology 18/11/2010 The Songs of the Stars: The Real Music of the Spheres Interviews 15/11/2010 Bill Chaplin: “Science would be very boring if all our theories proved correct right from the start, in fact that would be a very unrealistic world” 16/11/2010 Steve Kawaler: “Some of the Asteroseismology early successes came through the work on pulsating white dwarfs in the 1970s through today” 17/11/2010 Sarbani Basu: “Asteroseismology is the only means available with which we can

Tenerife y Gran Canaria acogerán diversos talleres, charlas y otras actividades de divulgación

La Nebulosa del Collar será la “Imagen Astronómica del Día” en el prestigioso portal de la NASA “ Astronomy Picture of the Day” del día 3 de noviembre.

The STARMUS popular festival will unite world-famous researchers in space sciences and astronauts on the island of Tenerife from 21 to 26 March to open up this discipline to the public at large.

Aníbal García-Hernández y Arturo Manchado han liderado el descubrimiento de enormes cantidades de buckyesferas o fulerenos, moléculas de carbono con forma de balón de fútbol, en la Vía Láctea y otra galaxia cercana.Los fulerenos han sido detectados, gracias al telescopio Spitzer de la NASA, acompañados de grandes cantidades de hidrógeno, lo que contradice las teorías actuales.Estas moléculas, las más grandes conocidas en el espacio, pudieron transportar las semillas para que comenzara la vida en la Tierra.