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He wrote some books popularizing astronomy, and was first president of the Spanish and American Astronomical Society (Spanish: Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América; S.A.D.E.Y.A.). He discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solà , and co-discovered the non-periodic comet C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solà); he is also credited by the Minor ...
Medieval Spanish astronomers (3 C, 11 P) A. Spanish astrophysicists (14 P) Pages in category "Spanish astronomers" This category contains only the following page.
Almudena Alonso-Herrero (born 1968) [citation needed] is a Spanish astronomer whose research includes the use of infrared astronomy to study star formation and dust emission in Seyfert galaxies and other galaxies with active nuclei.
José Joaquín de Ferrer y Cafranga (Pasaia, October 26, 1763 – Bilbao, May 18, 1818) was a Spanish Basque astronomer. In 1779, aged 17, he was on board the Gipuzcoana Company's Nuestra Señora de la Asunción off Cape St Vincent when the vessel was captured by the British. After surviving captivity with the help of his family, he undertook ...
Birth home of Jorge Juan in the estate El Fondonet (also known as El Hondón), located in the town of Novelda, in the province of Alicante. Jorge Juan was born of two distinguished hidalgo families: his father was don Bernardo Juan y Canicia, a relative of the Counts of Peñalba, while his mother was doña Violante Santacilia y Soler de Cornellá, who came from a prominent land-owning family ...
Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born 1979), is a Spanish astronomer. [1] [2] In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, [3] which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in Nature.
21st-century Spanish astronomers (12 P) This page was last edited on 18 July 2021, at 06:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In 2011 he is a tenured scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, [5] [6] [7] where he continues to study meteorites and comets [8] and their paths in the solar system. [9] [10] [11] In 2012 the Minor Planet Center named Main Belt asteroid 8325 Trigo-Rodríguez after him. [12]