During his last visit to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) we talked to the Director of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) of the United States about the launching of the Parker Solar Probe, among other subjects. Valentín Martínez Pillet studied for his doctorate at the University of La Laguna and at the IAC, where he is a Coordinator of Projects, but this solar physicist is currently carrying out Special Duties, after accepting, in 2013, the offer to be the director of the institution which is constructing the biggest solar telescope in the world, the Daniel, K. Inouye Solar

On the night of 12th to 13 of August, a moonless night, we will be able to see the maximum, of this meteor shower. The event will be broadcast live from the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) and from El Anillo (Cáceres) via the sky-live.tv channel, on August 12th with the collaboration of the European project STARS4ALL and by “Extremadura Buenas Noches” an initiative of the Junta of Extremadura. In addition the citizen science project “Contadores de estrellas” (“Counters of Stars”) fimded by FECYT offers an observing proposal for the whole family.

A study involving a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has been led by a researcher at the Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC) and the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos (UB-IEEC), argues that the explosion that Johannes Kepler observed in 1604 was caused by a merger of two stellar residues.

La sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna, acoge durante esta semana la IV edición del Curso Internacional de Verano “Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands”, en el que participan 30 docentes de 6 países.

Among the young women scientists proposed this year to receive the award, which recognizes the careers of researchers with leadership, and who promote the interest of other young people for material related to the sciences are two people with doctorates obtained at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of La Laguna (ULL).

Researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias are participating in the science team of this project of the European Space Agency (ESA) which is studying the cosmic microwave background radiation, the fossil radiation of the Big Bang.