Skinakas Observatory

We watch the car thermometer drop 10 degrees from 30 Celsius as we leave the village of Anogeia in central Crete as we make the climb to the Skinakas Observatory on the summit of Mount Psiloritis (Ida).

Greece's Foundation for Research and Technology is poised to launch the country's first Astrophysics Institute, in cooperation with the University of Crete, which aims to become an international hub of research and innovation in the field.