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Choose your own star! If you picked the solar mass #star, now you can read how the story continues.
#Astronomy#evolution
https://t.co/LK24eHazXb
🧵 LIGO ha detectado algo que no debería existir…
Y podría ser la mejor pista hasta ahora de un tipo de agujero negro nacido antes de las estrellas.
Si esto se confirma, podríamos estar viendo directamente el origen de la materia oscura.
¿Sabías que hay quien agujerea su tejado por la astronomía? En ATEEP 037 hablamos con los cazadores de cometas que descubren lo invisible y colaboran con... @ivoox https://t.co/MIefSsKrg6
🔬✨ ¿Te vienes a descubrir la ciencia con nosotros?
La SNE vuelve a Madrid es Ciencia con un stand lleno de novedades, donde podrás experimentar, jugar y aprender con actividades para todas las edades.
🧵 ¿Tendrás visibilidad del #Eclipse2026 desde tu ubicación? Compruébalo en el visualizador oficial desarrollado por el @IGNSpain. 🗺️👇
🌔Te explicamos cómo usarlo para que no se te escape nada.
🔗Entra en nuestra web https://t.co/pCy3yQs5Rd
🔭 El Trío de Eclipses cuenta desde hoy con una web oficial, que lanzamos desde @CienciaGob, para que nadie se pierda todos los detalles sobre este fenómeno único que viviremos en España entre 2026 y 2028.
📲 Descubre toda la información en: https://t.co/nS6cmCA4xH
¿Cómo es posible que la teoría más extraña y contraintuitiva de la ciencia sea, al mismo tiempo, la más eficaz y potente que la humanidad haya producido ... @ivoox https://t.co/CY67RuJCw6
El caso del descubrimiento de Urano resulta interesante. William Herschel no fue ni el primero en observarlo ni el primero en percatarse de que era un nuevo planeta.
Como este viernes se cumplen 245 años de su descubrimiento, me parece una buena ocasión para comentarlo 🧵👇🏻
Aquí tienes toda la información del programa #todashacemosciencia de nuestro pódcast "Antes todo esto era plasma", con enlaces a los estudios comentados, al vídeo y también al audio. #11F
https://t.co/VV57FNkdJr
📢 Curso para profesorado CESAR - Telescopios y misiones espaciales
🗓️ Del 9 al 12 de febrero 👩🏫 Dirigido a docentes de todas las etapas
📝 Inscripción abierta hasta el 5 de febrero a las 18:00 h 👉 Programa completo e inscripción en nuestra web
Comets are more than just cosmic curiosities – they carry vital clues about the origin of Earth’s water & the building blocks for life! ☄️
Use winter break free time to help researchers spot comets with the Rubin Comet Catchers project!
Learn more: https://t.co/DRfXF89cD7
Una alumna me ha preguntado si las personas estamos, en cuanto a tamaño, más cerca de la estructura más grande del universo conocido o de la más pequeña a nivel atómico.
Me ha parecido un ejercicio de escalas muy interesante y que permite jugar con varias posibilidades 👇
Agnes Pockels was nineteen years old when she noticed something strange in the dishwater.
It was 1881. She was standing at the sink in her family's home in Brunswick, Germany, watching the way grease moved across the surface of the water. The way soap changed everything. The way the surface itself seemed to have properties she couldn't explain.
Most people would have finished the dishes forgetting it.
Agnes Pockels wrote it down.
She would have liked to study physics at university. But in Germany in 1881, women were not permitted to attend university.
She devoured the physics books of her brother, teaching herself the mathematics and theory that formal education had denied her.
She needed a way to measure what she was observing. So she built one.
In 1882, she developed what she called a Schieberinne—a sliding trough.
With this homemade apparatus, Agnes Pockels began a decade of solitary research.
She had found the moment when a single layer of molecules, one molecule thick, formed across the surface.
She calculated that a single molecule occupied about twenty square angstroms of surface area. This threshold would later be named the "Pockels Point" in her honor.
Ten years. No laboratory. No colleagues. No mentors. No funding. Just a woman at kitchen sink, making measurements of stunning precision. And no way to publish any of it. She was isolated.
Then, in 1890, she read an article in a German science journal. The English physicist Lord Rayleigh—one of the most celebrated scientists in the world—had been studying the properties of water surfaces. He was asking questions remarkably similar to her own.
She wrote to him.
On January 10, 1891, she sent Lord Rayleigh a twelve-page letter in German, outlining a decade of research. She described her apparatus, her methods, her findings. She was modest almost to a fault:
"My Lord, will you kindly excuse my venturing to trouble you with a German letter on a scientific subject? ... For various reasons I am not in a position to publish them in scientific periodicals, and I therefore adopt this means of communicating to you the most important of them."
Rayleigh read the letter. He recognized immediately what he was holding.
On March 2, 1891, he forwarded it to the editor of Nature, the most prestigious scientific journal in the English-speaking world, with a covering letter:
"I shall be obliged if you can find space for the accompanying translation of an interesting letter which I have received from a German lady, who with very homely appliances has arrived at valuable results respecting the behaviour of contaminated water surfaces.."
Ten days later, Agnes Pockels's research was published in Nature under the title "Surface Tension."
She was twenty-nine years old. She had never set foot in a university. And her kitchen experiments had just entered the scientific record.
Agnes stunning story, a soul-stirring story can be found here
Ya están disponibles nuevas fechas de las Space Science Experiences (SSE) hasta mayo. 🚀🔭
Si quieres que tu colegio viva una jornada única en ESAC, con actividades sobre ciencia y exploración espacial, solo tienes que entrar en la web de CESAR y solicitar una fecha. 🌍✨
Hoy, en #ATEEP, un grupo de gente un pelín rara hablaremos de estrellas aún más raras (o quizá no)... ¿Cuál es tu favorita?
Enlace al directo: https://t.co/8QhOHd4Hk1
Next Tuesday, October the 28th, at the Instituto Cervantes (London), a conversation about "The Reinvention of Science" with authors Bernard J. T. Jones and Vicent J. Martínez, chaired by Prof. Sonia Antoranz Contera, in person and online, free tickets at https://t.co/ab9GDeT6NF