2nd GUAIX internal meeting
Click the link to access the program of the meeting. See you on the 17th!
UCM joins AtLAST2. Toward the largest sub-mm telescope
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…
Astrofísicos de la UCM participan en AGORA CosmoRun, un novedoso estudio para simular la formación de galaxias
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…
Alejandro Sánchez lanza el primer Mapa de Contaminación Lumínica de la Península Ibérica
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 Dr. Cristina Catalán Torrecilla participa en la reunión de lanzamiento del Proyecto Europeo AC3
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…
Jesús Gallego gives the inaugural invited talk at the II International Astronomy Congress in Guatemala
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…
Prof. Jaime Zamorano is awarded with the Crawford Hunter Lifetime Achievement
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…
Searching for a science of origins
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…
The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
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…
Brand-new ISO7 clean room at LICA
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…