Phil Charles is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom) and has visiting professorships at the Universities of Oxford (United...
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NewsPhil Charles: “The advances through the forty years I have been a research astronomer have all been a result of the huge technology gains that have taken place since the Second World War, particularly in the space arena, where many wavelengths had been co
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NewsPHIL GREGORY: “If life on other planets has evolved in the same way as life on Earth, it is more likely that we will find dinosaurs than intelligent life”
This radioastronomer is lecturing at the Winter School of the IAC dedicated to the relation between statistics and astrophysics
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NewsPIERO BENVENUTI: “La Palma and the Canary Islands are among the best astronomical sites in the world”.
Since it started on October 3rd the conference “ Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society” has been discussing the consequences of artificial lighting at...
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NewsRAFFAELLA MORGANTI: "The first image of a black hole was an important milestone for astrophysics"
Radioastronomy is one of the branches of observational astrophysics which has experienced considerable growth in recent years. To study the universe at radio...
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NewsRAMÓN GARCÍA LÓPEZ: “La instalación del CTA en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos supondrá un gran impacto económico en La Palma”
Por Elena Mora (IAC) La red de telescopios CTA es Ciencia, pero no solo eso”, afirma Ramón García López, investigador principal de CTA ( Cherenkov Telescope...
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NewsROBERTO TROTTA: “Our understanding of the Universe does not depend on the data, but on our ability to understand them”
This cosmologist lectured via videoconference at the IAC Winter School on “Bayesian Astrophysics”
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NewsROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”
He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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NewsSAMUEL TING: “If we find complete agreement with the theory, we don’t learn anything”
“I still remember the surface of the Moon seen from the Teide Observatory”. He will never forget the image: Sharp, close up, and brilliant. It was the first...
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NewsSANTI CASSISI: “Our new library of stellar models will be made publicly available at the whole international scientific community via the web page of the IAC”
“The stellar population group at IAC has developed state-of-the-art population synthesis tools for retrieving the Stellar Formation History of resolved stellar...