Este glosario trata de acercar la astronomía al público de habla hispana, con una selección de palabras explicadas de forma clara y amena. Se trata de una iniciativa de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA), que en colaboración con el diario El País digital ofrece la posibilidad de acceder a las definiciones de unos trescientos términos listados alfabéticamente. Pueden acceder al glosario des de este enlace: glosario
The ESO Astronomical Glossary explains a large collection of frequently used terms in astronomy. This glossary is not intended to be complete. It includes terms that are related to ESO Telescopes and Instrumentation and which often appears in ESO Publications and Press Releases. Link: ESO Astronomical Glossary
“Hawking, Stephen, British cosmologist and theoretical physicist, born in Oxford (1942-). His most important contributions to science have been his study of quantum gravity and black holes. He also authored the extremely popular A Brief History of Time, which spent 237 weeks on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list. Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative motor neural disease, which was diagnosed during his graduate studies. He is confined to a wheelchair and speaks through a voice-box. As part of an ongoing effort to popularize science and space-travel, Hawking went on a sub-orbital flight, during which he became the first quadriplegic to experience antigravity.”
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