Casa Goyo mostly serves fish that was swimming around last night. The décor isn’t posh, although they’ve gone upmarket since I arrived on La Palma and swapped the earth floor for a concrete one. Most of the tables are in little concrete or wooden booths. The restaurant itself is at the end of the airport runway, which means that conversations have to stop when a plane comes into land. That…
Francisco Sánchez, the founder of the Canarian Astrophysics Institute has resigned at the age of 77. Rafael Rebolo is the new director. Rafael Rebolo is an internationally known astrophysicist who has published over 150 scientific papers, mostly to do with exoplanets and cosmic microwave background. Francisco Sanchez is a hard act to follow. Francisco Sánchez, fundador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ha jubilado a la edad de 77. Rafael…
Yay! I finally sent the second edition of “A Breathtaking Window on the Universe” off to the printers. The new version with have a more complete history section, details on a new telescope and an explanation of why we’re all made of starstuff. Now I can celebrate, and get on with my next project: an anthology of children’s stories set on La Palma featuring our glorious night sky.See what I…