3 06, 2022

Looking at the sun

By |2022-06-03T17:05:35+02:003 June 2022|Canada English, Ireland, News, Videos|Comments Off on Looking at the sun

John Robson, a historian, makes excellent short videos about climate change. You can subscribe to his channel. Yesterday he posted a somewhat longer video focussing on the role of the sun. It is very well done and I encourage everyone to look at the full 20 minutes. It discusses in quite some detail [...]

2 06, 2021

In memoriam Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (1921-2021)

By |2021-06-02T17:51:51+02:002 June 2021|News, The Netherlands|Comments Off on In memoriam Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (1921-2021)

Kees de Jager in 2016 during an interview at his home on the island Texel. © 2021 De Loods mediaproducties / Stichting Beeldlijn Guest article by Prof. Ed van den Heuvel Professor Cornelis de Jager (“Kees”), world-renowned astronomer, pioneer of Dutch and European space research, inspiring teacher, great popularizer of science and fighter against [...]