A prototype of the large telescope LST of this array will be installed at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory under an agreement between the IAC and the University of Tokyo

The Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries (IAC) has participated in a number of outreach activities related to today’s solar eclipse (Friday 20 March 2015). Astrophysicists from the IAC with the astrophotographer Daniel López went off to hunt the eclipse, looking for a clear sky. They found it in the municipality of Granadilla, in the south of the island of Tenerife, from where they took pictures of the eclipsed sun at different phases. Another group of astrophysicists and solar physicists from the IAC collaborated with the Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC) of the Museums of Tenerife

Disfrute de él tomando las debidas precauciones

A team of astronomers situated in northerly latitudes, the Faroe Islands, will observe and transmit in real time (web platform: sky-live.tv) the details of the coming eclipse. Those on the expedition are members of the European GLORIA project. The main aim of GLORIA is to convey the excitement of science and to help the non-specialist audience to understand it.

This animation covers a time span of 13,000 million years, almost the complete lifetime of the universe

Fernando Clavijo, alcalde de La Laguna, visitó ayer la sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), localizada en este municipio, antes de participar en la rueda de prensa organizada con motivo de la presentación de IACTech. Acompañaron esta visita Juan Ruiz Alzola, director de la Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACISII), Rafael Rebolo y Carlos Martínez, director y subdirector del IAC, respectivamente, así como otros investigadores e ingenieros del centro. Durante la visita, se le informó de la investigación que se realiza en este