Citizen science is a growing field that is generating new knowledge through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As this field expands it has started showing that it can be integrated into education in both formal and informal learning environments. In particular, the integration into education systems is creating new synergies as students acquire…
Imagine a movie that includes 50-100 pictures of the sky every single night. A snapshot of the sky brightness progress. That’s the idea behind the AZOTEA project The cameras of our collaborators monitor the night sky to serve our main research purpose: to study the light pollution evolution by measuring the brightness and color of…
This invited talk was the one that opened the congress, that was held at the Universidad Galileo in Guatemala City. Jesús Gallego reviewed our conception of the cosmos, since the beginning of humanity, the firmament has always attracted us as something distant and unreachable. From the sphere of fixed stars in the book “Del saber…
The efforts for spreading the Street Spectra project are more visible than ever. Thanks to the collaboration of the astronomy association “Astroguada” 8 schools have signed up to involve their students on the project. They gave us the opportunity of reaching all the students from ages 12 to 18. Each group got two different sessions…
This award represents the highest honor that the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) bestows upon individuals who, in the course of their lifetime, have contributed an extraordinary effort to light pollution abatement. Included in his many accomplishments, Jaime is a driving force of light pollution research in Europe with a clear focus on the promotion of…
A year and a half ago, Spain became one of the first countries to go into lockdown. A group of researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, took this opportunity to study the variation of the brightness and color of the night sky in this period of time and used it to estimate the human contribution…
Text: Jaime Fernández, Photo: Alfredo Matilla Since the end of 2019, the Professor of Paleontology, Juan Luis Arsuaga, and the Professor of Astrophysics, Jesús Gallego, have been involved in a series of conferences (many of them online during the pandemic) in which they demand the need for a multidisciplinary discipline that investigates the origins of…
Up to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, last January the 8th & 9th. The record-breaking snowfall triggered some unprecedented scenes in Madrid. The low temperatures kept the snow and ice piled up across the capital for several days what triggered people to sky along Gran Vía street or had a…
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2 billion years of the age of the Universe. The team, that has used one of the largest optical telescope in the world, Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), located at the Observatorio del…
The Festival for Art, Technology and Society “Ars Electronica” is an internationally platform for digital art and media culture that enjoys a worldwide reputation. This year’s edition took place from September the 9th to the 13th, and for the first time, it happened not only in Linz, but at 120 locations around the globe. 6…