The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, admitted that it was difficult to bring Starmus back to the islands and that everything possible will be done to ensure that it does not leave again. The competition has a budget of three million euros.
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The festival Starmus , combining science and music, will return to the Canary Islands for the eighth time after four outside the islands and will take place from April 26 to 30, 2025 with a budget of three million euros and under the name “Festival Starmus-La Palma. Island of Stars” .
The competition, founded by researcher Garik Israelyan of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) and musician and physicist Brian May , was first held in 2011 between La Palma and Tenerife with the participation of the Apollo Neil astronauts. Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Charlie Duke, as well as Soviet space-age cosmonauts such as Alexei Leonov and Viktor Gorbatko.
