November 26, 2009
Brown dwarfs are sometimes called “failed stars”. They are born from interstellar clouds following processes closely related to the formation of normal stars. But brown dwarfs […]
October 14, 2009
I have watched a very interesting movie last weekend: “Ágora”, by the Spanish-Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar. It is a story about a very interesting character, the […]
September 16, 2009
I have to confess that sometimes I am very tired of my trips: conferences, workshops, meetings, observing runs… I hate airports, I do not like the […]
September 1, 2009
If months ago (sorry for not being able to write more often: work, trips, vacations…) I wrote about writing proposals and the efort it implied, now […]
June 4, 2009
Astronomy, like any other science, works under the system of peer-review. It means that nothing is published in a prestigious journal without having the external examination […]
May 30, 2009
Running, I feel I am always running everywhere, trying not to miss the next step, almost at the verge of a disaster. Today, the train from […]
April 21, 2009
In the JENAM (European Astronomical Society Meeting), in England … plenty of wonderful results. Of course, from my point of view, the most important is the […]
April 18, 2009
After a quite a hectic month, full of proposals and paperwork, I can go back to science. ¿Really? I had my last deadline last April 10th, […]
March 25, 2009
I have never been in a submarine, but sometimes I have the feeling I have navigated inside deep waters during long weeks. The feeling persists and […]
February 26, 2009
“Nasir rolled over on his back, with my glasses, and began to study the stars, counting aloud first one group and then another; crying out with […]
February 11, 2009
“…Give me the ships, with adapted sails to the heavenly wind; there will be fearless people , even if they face the immensity. And for those […]
February 6, 2009
February 6th … in few hours the possibility of requesting observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope will end. Like my team, a lot of groups have […]