Life, as we know it, exists only on Earth. The emergence of life here may be a matter of probability or luck, but in Science there is no place for the second...
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NewsMALCOLM FRIDLUND: “If we don’t look outside, we will never know if we are alone in the Universe”
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NewsMARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"
Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
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NewsMARIA BERGEMANN: “Miniscule changes in physical properties of late-type stars may have radical effects on the emitted radiation spectra”
Maria Bergemann, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), is one of the invited professors at the XXIX Canary Islands...
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NewsMARÍA ROSA ZAPATERO-OSORIO: “Brown dwarfs can potentially have rocky planets like the Earth in their habitability zones”
By IVÁN JIMÉNEZ Twenty years ago an exceptional discovery blurred forever the boundary between what we call stars and what we call planets. A star is...
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NewsMario Joao Monteiro: “Europe has established itself as the leader in many aspects of Asteroseismology”
Mario Joao Monteiro is a theorist of the highest order. An expert in solar and stellar modelling, his current scientific interests are centred on the seismic...
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NewsMARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”
Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...
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NewsMATS CARLSSON: “In astrophysics we cannot perform experiments so we just have to extract information from the light the star emits”
Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo (Norway) and director of the center of excellence "Rosseland Center for Solar...
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NewsMERECEDES PRIETO MUÑOZ: “In the puzzle of the formation and evolution of galaxies there are only a few pieces to insert”
The astrophysicist of the iAC received the “IUEM 8 of March” prize, awarded by the University of La Laguna for her contribution to the advances of women in the...
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NewsMICHAEL KÜPPERS: “Asteroids may play a larger role than comets in the delivery of water to Earth”
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...