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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) celebrates International Women's Day by publicizing the work of the women on the staff, and making a balance sheet of the state of gender equality in the Institute. The IAC started its activities in gender equality in 2008, when the Commission on Equality was founded, with the aim of finding the means and the actions needed for the active incorporationof the principle of effective equality between men and women and designing its first Equality Plan. At the present time the Institute is applying its third Equality Plan, which includes 8
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Dentro de las acciones de divulgación del proyecto Interreg EELabs, la madrugada del 4 de enero, el canal sky-live.tv retransmitirá la máxima actividad de la lluvia de meteoros de las Cuadrántidas desde el Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife) y desde Extremadura, bajo el paraguas del proyecto Extremadura Buenas Noches. Como cada año, 2023 lo comenzaremos mirando al cielo para compartir la máxima actividad de la lluvia de las Cuadrántidas, que, junto a las Gemínidas y las Perseidas, forman parte del selecto grupo de las lluvias de meteoros más intensas del año, con una actividad que suele rozar
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The international collaboration Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, has discovered rapid and quasi-periodic variations in the observed brightness of the blazar BL Lacertae, located about a billion light-years away. These changes were observed during a strong outburst in 2020 and their origin is associated with a jet of high-energy particles. The study has used data from space satellites combined with observations from ground-based infrastructures, including the Teide Observatory (OT) and the Roque de los
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