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Personal

December 21, 2012

End of world predictions: a wasted moment of our collective resources

It is amazing the amount of money and time wasted in 2012 on this "end of the world" prediction. We can blame ignorance of the people or sensationalism from the media, but we should also discuss the role of educated ...

June 11, 2012

Venus Transit: From San Francisco in 2012 to Mars in 2030

If you read this blog, I am certain that you are aware of the Venus Transit which occurred  from  22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012 to 04:49 UTC on 6 June (3:09pm to 8:49pm PDT). Because this astronomical event was visible from North America, Europe, and part ...

May 9, 2012

Introduction

Hello, everyone.  Welcome to my blog as part of the Cosmic Diary.  I'm an astronomer at the SETI Institute.  Or a planetary scientist.  Or a planetary astronomer.  Or something.  I've never figured out what to call myself.  I spend my ...

April 13, 2012

The New Cosmic Diary is now open

Some of you may have noticed that the Cosmic Diary Blog was unavailable over the past 2 weeks due to the migration of the Blog to the SETI Institute server. I am happy to announce that thanks to the great ...

December 10, 2010

Renovation of the German-Spanish agreement for the future of Calar Alto

After many moths and a lot of work .... (and this is one of the reasons why I was not active writing posts, or in science) .... We have an agreement! Calar Alto Observatory (Almería, Southern Spain) will continue it scientific ...

May 4, 2010

Hello from Sydney

Hello all, I am back!! So where to start on all the crazy things that have happened since January... Well, I am now blogging from Sydney, Australia. Since March, I am a research astronomer at the AAO (which stands for Anglo-Australian Observatory, ...

February 19, 2010

SETI Institute Anniversary 1/6: The Milky Way Galaxy

It is getting more and more difficult to find a dark place, without night pollution and far from the smog of the cities, to be able to realize that we are part of a large barred spiral galaxy called the ...

January 12, 2010

Belated New Year wishes

First of all wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2010. Hope everyone had a good vacation. I am officially still on vacation in Melbourne. We have been enjoying many sunny days here (some days bit too hot). We ...

November 29, 2009

How will be Earth if it has rings? tomorrow at the NASA-GRC!

How will be our planet if it has a ring? I found this interesting video on the web that I wanted to share with you. Surprisingly I wrote this 7 days ago and apparently forgot to publish it. Find below the ...

November 24, 2009

Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland

This will be my last post from Germany as we are just about to leave the country... My ESO fellowship is finishing early next year and given the unused leave I have, we decided to end my fellowship with a holiday ...