Issue No. 1978
1 - 7 June 2023
COSTA DE ALMERIA • EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COM
A VERY distinguished guest, 2020 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Professor Reinhard Genzel, director of the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Germany arrived in Almeria City to be the first speaker at the eleventh Astronomical Conference of Almeria on Monday May 29. His speciality on which he spoke on the opening of the conference is those mysteri ous black holes that almost everyone has heard of but few really understand. This annual event, organ ised by Almeria City Council and the Provincial Council, at tracts not just local as tronomers and simple star gazers but a large number of enthusiasts from across Spain and it runs from May 29 to June 3. There will be a total of five conferences, and apart from Herr Genzel, another fasci nating guest will be the NASA engineer, Begoña Vila Costas. The conference takes place at the Teatro Apollo from Monday to Friday at 8pm each night and admission is free until capacity is reached so, there is time to attend tonight (Thursday) to listen to emeritus research professor at the Institute of Astro
Credit: Almeria Provincial Council
SKY AT NIGHT ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE: Professor Genzel (centre) at the event on May 29.
physics of the Canary Islands (IAC), John E Beckman. The following night it will be the turn of the NASA engi neer, Begoña Vila Costas, who currently lives in Wash ington DC, with her talk about the James Webb Space
Telescope Instruments. There is a related exhibi tion in the Patio de Luces de Diputación celebrating 24 years of the Astrohita Obser vatory in Toledo that you can visit throughout the week and there will be the tradi
tional night of astronomical observation conducted at the facilities of the Association Orion in Retamar, from 10pm on the night of Saturday June 3 with the presence of Be goña Vila Costas and the added bonus of a picnic.
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