The encounter, which will take place between September 18th and 22nd, in the municipality in La Palma of Los Llanos de Aridane, will bring together around forty literary figures writing in Spanish from both sides of the Atlantic. Among the planned acts the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will participate in a panel discussion which will pay tribute to the memory of Stephen Hawking, and will organize a special visit for the guests to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.

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.

The call for proposals for semester 2019A of the night CAT has been released. Deadline on October 2, at 23:59 UT.

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.