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Our astronomers Teresa Antoja and Roger Mor appear in this month's edition of the Sky & Telescope magazine. They talk about the Gaia mission and how its data releases have been broadening the knowledge about our Milky Way.
In the piece "“Data from the Gaia Spacecraft are unveiling the Milky Way’s tumultuous past”, Mor talks about his findings on the Milky Way's stelar baby boom.
Antoja says to the magazine “ Most of usare very lucky to be in this place and at this time. This topic in general, galactic dynamics, this will be the Golden age”. She has recently published two papers that go in depth inthe study of Saggitarius.
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Mor et al., 2019. "Gaia DR2 reveals a star formation burst in the disc 2–3 Gyr ago" Astronomy & Astrophysics, 624.Antoja and colleagues on the "Full 5D characterisation of the Sagittarius stream with Gaia DR2 RR Lyrae", and "An all-sky proper-motion map of the Sagittarius stream using Gaia DR2".
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Teresa Antoja and Roger Mor interviewed at the Sky & Telesco
Researcher Toni Santana-Ros comments for La Vanguardia about the finding and description of Arrokoth, the furthest object of the Solar System. The study has been recently published in three consecutive papers in Science this week, using the data obtained by the New Horizons space mission.
Read the whole piece at La Vanguardia
Read the original Science articles:
"The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper belt", W.B. McKinnon et al.;
"The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth", J.R. Spencer et al.;
"Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth" by W.M. Grundy et al.
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Toni Santana-Ros on the finding of Arrokoth
Researchers Àngels Aran and José Maria Gómez-Cama explain to El Periódico their contribution to the Solar Orbiter mission developement and launch.
Read the whole article at El Periódico
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Àngels Aran & José Maria Gómez Cama on the Solar Orbiter mis
Astronomer Roger Mor wins the second prize of the "La Bona Gent" contest, organized by El Diari de Tarragona.
The contest searched for the Tarragonian person of the year, and proposed several candidates from different backgrounds. The winner was Ruth Lau, a neurosurgeon who won the Young Neurosurgeon Award 2019. Mor ended in the second placed, and was voted by 8.077 persons.
The award ceremony was sponsored by La Caixa, and the prizes were given by newspaper director Alex Saldaña and the la Caixa Tarragona director David Ciscar.
You can read the whole piece at Diari de Tarragona
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Roger Mor wins the second prize of the "La bona gent"contest
The researcher talks to the radio show "La Tarde" in Cadena COPE about the different types of lunar eclipses, and the meaning of the penombral ones, in the frame of the first penombral lunar eclipse of 2020.
Listen to the podcast (min 44:30) at La Tarde 17h
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Josep Manel Carrasco talking about the penumbral lunar eclip
The magazine interviews our researcher Licia Verde, in the frame of the publication of her meeting report "Tensions between early and late Universe" on Nature Astronomy.
Verde discusses about the discrepancies detected in the current model, and the future perspectives in the field of cosmology.
Read the whole interview at Butlletí RECERCAT
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Licia Verde interviewed at Butlletí RECERCAT
Our cosmologist Licia Verde converses with journalist Toni Pou about the developement of cosmology , how it has become a precise science and its applications in other fields.
Read the whole interview at Diari ARA
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Licia Verde interviewed at Diari ARA
Our researcher Josep Manel Carrasco talks to the radio show La República Santboiana of Ràdio Sant Boi about the Christmas star and light pollution.
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Josep Manel Carrasco on the Christmas Star and light polluti
The passage of time and the absence of a public commitment to preserve its legacy seem to condemn to oblivion one of the most relevant figures in Spanish astronomy. Josep Comas Solà, born in Barcelona in the second half of the 19th century, is responsible for some of the most striking celestial discoveries of his time.
Álvaro Soto's documentary covers the life and work of this extraordinary astronomer with the help of the professors of the History of Science, Antoni Roca-Rosell and Pedro Ruiz-Castell. The current director of the Observatori Fabra and Professor of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, Jorge Núñez, also participated. The program also analyzes its contributions to the development of seismology with the help of Josep Batlló, specialist in that field of the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. The scientific communicator Bibiana Bonmatí and the former presidents of the astronomical groups Aster, Ricard Martínez, and de Sabadell, Josep Maria Oliver, explore their facet of disseminating the celestial observation. The most intimate portrait of the character is drawn by his relative Pau Senra and Núria Guille, friend of the Comas Solà environment.
Álvaro Soto's documentary covers the life and work of this extraordinary astronomer with the help of the professors of the History of Science, Antoni Roca-Rosell and Pedro Ruiz-Castell. The current director of the Observatori Fabra and Professor of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, Jorge Núñez, also participated. The program also analyzes its contributions to the development of seismology with the help of Josep Batlló, specialist in that field of the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. The scientific communicator Bibiana Bonmatí and the former presidents of the astronomical groups Aster, Ricard Martínez, and de Sabadell, Josep Maria Oliver, explore their facet of disseminating the celestial observation. The most intimate portrait of the character is drawn by his relative Pau Senra and Núria Guille, friend of the Comas Solà environment.
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Josep Comas Solà, a watchman of space
Prof. Carme Jordi has attended "El Cabàs de la Muntala" of Ràdio Santvi to talk about the Gaia mission.
You can listen to the podtcast here.
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Prof. Carme Jordi is interviewed at Library La Muntala, Sant