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View SchemaUN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science: An Update on Their Achievements
| Authors | H. J. Haubold |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/9910042 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9910042 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48374.x |
| Journal | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 822(1997)621-630 |
Abstract
During the second half of the twentieth century, expensive observatories are being erected at La Silla (Chile), Mauna Kea (Hawai), Las Palmas (Canary Island), and Calar Alto (Spain), to name a view. In 1990, at the beginning of The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Bahcall [2]), the UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science initiated the establishment of small astronomical telescope facilities, among them many particularly supported by Japan, in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific (Sri Lanka, Philippines), Latin America and the Caribbean (Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Paraguay), and Western Asia (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco). The annual UN/ESA Workshops continue to pursue an agenda to network these small observatory facilities through similar research and education programmes and at the same time encourage the incorporation of cultural elements predominant in the respective cultures. Cross-cultural integration and multi-lingual scientific cooperation may well be a dominant theme in the new millennium (Pyenson [20]). This trend is supported by the notion that astronomy has deep roots in virtually every human culture, that it helps to understand humanity's place in the vast scale of the Universe, and that it increases the knowledge of humanity about its origins and evolution=2E Two of these Workshops have been organized in Europe (Germany 1996 and France 2000) to strengthen cooperation between developing and industrialized countries.
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