Login Subscribe. Astrophysicist Julieta Fierro. Photo: Benedict Shegog Light in the 21st century Astronomers continue to rely on light to understand the universe today, notes Fierro.
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El universo by Julieta Fierro Gossman Book 5 editions published between and in Spanish and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. The ritual and seasonal calendars aligned every 52 years, explains Fierro, and this was marked by burying pyramids, extinguishing fires and breaking pottery — starting again. Photo: Benedict Shegog. Astronomers continue to rely on light to understand the universe today, notes Fierro.
Cellphones are a wonderful invention but they are completely based on research that was supposed to be useless. Plans for Kenya to acquire a small telescope about aperture 0. Dr Baki has been invited to make a presentation at the Special Session 5 Astronomy for the developing world at the 26th General Assembly in Prague. He visited New Zealand to meet with this writer in September At NARI a 2.
Thailand had considered joining the IAU a few years ago, but without a successful outcome. The decision to found and equip NARI with substantial capital expenditure has now made a re-consideration of this proposal very favorable, and a new application by Thailand to join the IAU in has been made. This is a logical decision, as of all the IAU non-member countries in the world, Thailand probably has more professional astronomical activity than any other. Visit to Iraq Athem Alsabti, a member of PGWWDA, visited Iraq in April to investigate the state of astronomy in that country and to explore the possibility of rehabilitating the Mt Korek Observatory in northern Iraq, which had been damaged in the Iran-Iraq war in , before becoming operational.
He met with vice-chancellors of most Iraqi universities while in Baghdad. The World-Wide Development of Astronomy Dr Alsabti reported after this visit that: There is a very strong support from the Kur- dish scientists and authorities a to rebuild the Observatory and b to start astronomical studies in the Kurdish region based at Erbil. Fierro gave a television interview. We visited all the astronomical facilities of IGA, including Arroyo Naranjo Observatory and cm Cassegrain telescope in outskirts of Havana and the Cacahual solar observatory with its solar telescope and spectrograph.
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