By IVÁN JIMÉNEZ Michela Mapelli, a researcher at the Padua astronomical observatory, belonging to the INAF, is interested in the forces at work in galaxies, and...
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NewsMICHELA MAPELLI: "The centre of the Milky Way is one of the most studied, but nevertheless one of the most enigmantic places in the universe"
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NewsMonstruos en las profundidadesEntrevista con Stephen S. Eikenberry (Universidad de Florida)
La vista, como los demás sentidos, apenas es capaz de captar una estrecha franja de la realidad que nos rodea. Es decir, que entre uno mismo y la realidad se...
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NewsNOEMÍ PINILLA: “If there really is a Planet X, finding it would force to revise the models of the creation and evolution of the Solar System that didn’t include it”
Noemí Pinilla, a researcher at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, has a very close relationship with the Instituto de Astrofísica...
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NewsNORBERT HUBIN: “The laser star guide system with Adaptive Optics which allow us to have much better sky coverage and better telescope performance”
“Although giant telescopes are under construction, astronomical images with good resolution cannot be obtained unless they use Adaptive Optics”, warns Norbert...
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NewsNORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"
Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...
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NewsOlga Atanackovic: “Numerical methods in radiative transfer can also be used in many other fields, like engineering and industry”
When Olga Atanackovic, professor at the Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (Serbia), finished her PhD thesis, she was the...
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NewsOMAIRA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN: “The Canary Observatories have been essential in the advance of the study of nuclear activity in galaxies”
For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active...
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NewsPAOLO VENTURA: “Understanding how the stars produce dust is fundamental for all the fields of astrophysics”
After participating in the Severo Ochoa Visitors Program which aims at increasing the collaboration between IAC personnel and prestigious researchers from other...
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NewsPHIL CHARLES: “I’m afraid I don’t know what happens when the matter passes through the event horizon of a black hole and neither does Stephen Hawking”
Black holes, those "cosmic ghosts" on which literature and cinema have based many of their stories, were no longer so mysterious when Phil Charles, Professor of...