Millions looked skyward as Venus crosses the Sun on June 5 for the last time more than 100 years. Astronomers Without Borders webcast live from world-famous Mount Wilson Observatory during this rare event, with expert interviews, amateur astronomers, public, videos and the world premiere of a musical composition for the 2012 Transit of Venus for one of the world's rarest musical instruments, the glass armonica, invented by Benjamin Franklin.
Source: Astronomers Without Borders Website
Moisés Jafet Cornelio-Vargas
About Moisés
Physicists, award-winning technologist, parallel entrepreneur, consultant and proud father born in the Dominican Republic.
Interested in HPC, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Internet Global High Scalability Apps, InfoSec, eLearning, General Aviation, Formula 1, Classical Music, Jazz, Sailing and Chess.
Founder of pluio.com and hospedio.com.
Author of the Sci-fi upcoming novel Breedpeace and co-author in dozens of publications.
Co-founder of MunicipiosAlDia.com, Jalalio Media Consultants and a number of other start-ups.
Former professor and Key-note speaker in conferences and congresses all across the Americas and Europe.
Proud member of the Microchip No.1 flying towards Interestellar space on board NASA's Stardust Mission, as well as member of Fundación Municipios al Día, Fundación Loyola, Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación and a number of other non-for profit, professional organizations, Open Source projects and Chess communities around the world.
All opinions here are his own's and in no way associated with his business interests or collaborations with third-parties.