La directora general, quien midió hace unos años el impacto social y económico de la Gran Ciencia (Big Science), destacó el ambicioso Plan Estratégico del IAC para los próximos años. "El IAC -dijo- destaca no sólo por su producción científica, sino también por la creación de capacidades tecnológicas y de innovación". Insistió en que la ciencia que hace el IAC es con y para la sociedad y que este instituto debe contribuir a combatir la pseudociencias.

The International Scientific Committee (Spanish initials CCI) of the Canary Island Observatories, meeting last week at the University of Louvain (Belgium) made an appeal to all the relevant authorities to collaborate among themselves to facilitate the development of these "Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures" on the islands.

The International Scientific Committee (Spanish initials CCI) of the Canary Island Observatories, meeting last week at the University of Louvain (Belgium) made an appeal to all the relevant authorities to collaborate among themselves to facilitate the development of these "Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures" on the islands.

An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Only a few dozen planets of this kind are known and its detection was made possible with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma.

The remnant of this huge supernova, chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA, is the third photograph taken with this telescope within the NIÉPCE Project.

An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Only a few dozen planets of this kind are known and its detection was made possible with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma.