This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.
Thanks to the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Ganarias (GTC) it has been possible to make the deepest survey of galaxies to date (OTELO) and the results could change what we currently know about the formation and evolution of galaxies.
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.
Tanausú del Pino Alemán, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been awarded the “ESPD Early Career Researcher Prize” for 2018 given by the European Physical Society to young researchers. This important recognition was awarded for his innovative contributions in the field of theoretical spectropolarimetry, a field of Physics which allows us to investigate the magnetism in the atmosphere of the Sun and of other stars by interpreting the polarization observed in the radiation of their spectral lines. Tanausú del Pino Alemán prepared his doctoral thesis in the