Music and astronomy: from The Planets, through El Planeta, to Los Planetas + What do Brian May (Queen’s lead guitarist), William Herschel and the Jupiter Symphony have in common? And a white dwarf, a piano and Lagartija Nick? At first glance, there is no connection between them, nor between Music and Astronomy. However, there are many revealing examples of musical Astronomy and astronomical Music. In this TEDx talk organized by SaintLouisUniversityMadrid, José Antonio Caballero shows us some of them.

José Antonio Caballero is a Spanish astrophysicist. He is a staff researcher of the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial at the Centro de Astrobiología. He is an expert in planets in and outside our Solar System, brown dwarfs, stars, and astronomical instrumentation. He has published over 100 refereed articles in the world’s leading journals in astrophysics and supervised three Ph.D. and two dozen MSc students. He received the Spanish Astronomical Society award for the best Ph.D. thesis and is an honorary citizen of El Escorial. He was the project manager and is the instrument astronomer of CARMENES, with which he and his team have discovered new exoplanets in the solar neighborhood. He is also a collaborator of Radio Clásica program Longitud de Onda, editor of the Astronomía magazine, and leader of the unitedsoundsofcosmos, an outreach project of astrophysics including artists of Lagartija Nick, Los Planetas, Lori Meyers, Soleá Morente, and others.