The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Wikimedia Spain are organising, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a Wikipedia editing workshop and an edit-a-thon of biographies of female astronomers and astrophysicists, an initiative that seeks to highlight the talent of women in the field of astronomy and astrophysics and contribute to reducing existing content gaps in the free encyclopaedia. The proposal is divided into two complementary days, designed to facilitate participation by anyone, regardless of their level of prior knowledge about editing
A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has tested a new technique capable of rapidly identifying the distortions that light undergoes as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere. The development, carried out by the Laboratorio para la Innovación en Optomecánica (LIOM) within the framework of the CELESTE project, could in the future contribute to the creation of more compact and simpler adaptive optics systems to improve the quality of astronomical observations. The technology combines an optical fibre approximately one centimetre long with artificial intelligence techniques
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma a la conmemoración del Día Internacional de las Mujeres y las Niñas en la Ciencia con un amplio programa de actividades orientadas a visibilizar el papel de las mujeres en la astronomía y fomentar el interés por la ciencia y la tecnología entre las nuevas generaciones. Entre las acciones más destacadas se encuentra la Editatona 11F, organizada junto a Wikimedia España. La iniciativa se articula en dos jornadas complementarias: un wikitaller práctico de introducción a la edición en Wikipedia, en el que las personas participantes aprenden