My wife is the Spanish Carl Sagan

My wife, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, is featured in a series of online programs about Spanish astronomy.

Almudena talks about the formation and evolution of galaxies. She's very photogenic and does a great job! You can see the videos here. They're in Spanish.

Is this the start of a new career for her? Will she become the Spanish Carl Sagan? I don't mind as long as she doesn't start talking like him.

Image courtesy of NASA. It was made using the Hubble Space Telescope, which Almudena uses regularly. Do I have a cool wife? Yes I do.

Searching For Black Holes

Almudena got mentioned in an article in El País today. She's going to be leading a team studying the effects of black holes on star forming regions in galactic nuclei. They'll be using the infrared detector on the new Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Canary Islands for 200 hours to get images of these regions. This has been her speciality for several years now and it's nice that she's finally getting some media attention. She even got interviewed for a sicence website! I'll be giving that link once the interview gets posted.