Antonia Varela, Marisa Tejedor, Carolina Martínez and Teresa Giráldez are given distinctions in an institutional act commemorating Women’s Day.

The first results on the analysis of the images of Bennu obtained using OCAMS, OVIRS, and OTES instruments on-board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have been published today in a paper on Nature Astronomy, co-authored by four researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL).

Stars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) before ending their lives as white dwarfs. It is during this rapid but crucial phase when the stars expand to huge dimensions and cool down, losing a major fraction of their mass due to the strong stellar winds. The low temperature and high density of the winds provide ideal conditions for the condensation of dust grains in their circumstellar envelopes. The dust produced by the stars in their AGB phase and expelled into the interstellar medium is important for the lives of the

El próximo miércoles 20 de marzo se producirá el equinoccio de marzo: de primavera en el Hemisferio Norte y de otoño en el Sur. Es el único día del año, junto con el equinoccio de septiembre, en el que el Sol sale exactamente por el Este y se esconde por el Oeste. El equinoccio de primavera será retransmitido en directo desde el dolmen Lácara en La Nava de Santiago (Badajoz, Extremadura) a través del canal sky-live.tv la madrugada del día 20 de marzo, con la colaboración de STARS4ALL y la iniciativa impulsada por la Junta de Extremadura “Extremadura, Buenas Noches” en los que participa el

The study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example of a gravitational lens, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Within the activities organized to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women’s Day, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has uploaded onto its video channels the multimedia theatre performance “ The Lost Honour of Henrietta Leavitt” which was put on in La Laguna and in Tacoronte, Tenerife, in October 2017. One can find the complete recording as well as four selected scenes, in both cases with sign language interpreters present.