TARSIS is the next generation instrument for the Calar Alto 3.5 meter telescope and will be unique in its ability to detect light in the near ultraviolet and its unprecedented field of view. Armando Gil de Paz, co-principal investigator of the project at UCM, says that TARSIS will be a great challenge because it…
Begoña García-Conde Navarro, PhD student of the GUAIX group has won the second prize in the PhDay 2022 sessions that were held from 10 to 14 October at the UCM Physical Science Faculty. Begoña García-Conde presented the research she is performing for her PhD thesis, entitled “Vertical Accelerations in Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way…
UCM and IAA-CSIC co-lead TARSIS, the future instrument for the 3.5 m telescope at Calar Alto. TARSIS has unique characteristics, in particular its capacity to detect near ultraviolet light and its unprecedented field of view, along with an ambitious observational survey of galaxy clusters (CATARSIS) tailored to it. TARSIS and CATARSIS will maintain the largest…
Jesús Gallego, investigador del grupo GUAIX, ha participado en la mesa redonda: “La primera vuelta al mundo y sus avances científicos”. En ella, ha aportado su punto de vista desde el campo de la astronomía, puesto que la observación del cielo ha sido siempre muy importante para los navegantes “ya que ayuda a resolver lo…
La mañana del 10 de mayo de 2022 se ha podido observar una gran prominencia solar. Durante 45 minutos, desde las 11.30 hasta las 12.15, se ha podido observar en el Sol una enorme prominencia en el limbo Suroeste que parecía estar a punto de entrar en erupción. Con el paso de los minutos se…
During the meeting on 2021, December 7, The ESO Council approved the MOSAIC construction agreement to be signed in March 2022 between ESO and CNRS (on behalf of MOSAIC). This is the green light for the MOSAIC preliminary design phase B until summer 2025.
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…
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…