Last July, the European Commission gave the green light to the funding of the AtLAST2 project through the Horizon Europe program. The project called Consolidating Plans for the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope will begin its activities in early 2025. It is an ambitious project with the ultimate goal of launching the most powerful single-antenna…
160 investigadores de 60 universidades presentan los resultados de su primer conjunto de simulaciones cosmológicas de la formación de una galaxia como la nuestra, la Vía Láctea, con el fin de avanzar hacia una teoría de la formación de las galaxias. El equipo de investigación ha revelado cómo la recuperación de las propiedades observadas del gas…
Con una resolución sin precedentes de 40 metros, el proyecto RALAN-Map EU está dirigido por el astrofísico de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel. Este mapa representa un avance significativo en el estudio de la contaminación lumínica, porque permite una evaluación más precisa de su impacto en el medio ambiente y en…
La Dra. Cristina Catalán Torrecilla, miembro del grupo GUAIX y responsable en la UCM del proyecto, participó el pasado 21 de junio de 2023 en la reunión inicial del proyecto Europeo AC3 (Agile and Cognitive Cloud edge Continuum management) que tuvo lugar en el EURECOM SophiaTech campus, en Sophia Antipolis, cerca de Niza (Francia). El…
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…
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…
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…
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…
These days has finished the installation of a brand-new ISO7 clean room at our LICA laboratory. The new facility will allow the manipulation and characterization of high-tech devices that need such level of cleaning. Specifically, LICA is now fully qualified for the work with scientific-level detectors, optical components, and complex instrumental setups. The LICA clean…
This didactic unit on the Cities at Night citizen science project aims to generate social awareness about the problem of light pollution, bring scientific research closer to schools and of course encourage young people to participate in the project. This teaching material will allow you to work in the classroom with high school students with…