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.

When Olga Atanackovic, professor at the Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (Serbia), finished her PhD thesis, she was the only one person in Serbia working in radiative transfer, an astrophysical problem which studies the interactions between radiation and matter with the goal of understanding the properties of stars and galaxies. Nowadays, the number of specialists in numerical methods in radiative transfer has increased to six, thanks to her efforts as university professor. “Numerical methods in radiative transfer can also be used in many other fields

The Gran Telescopio Canarias today inaugurates its website grantecan.es which will communicate the telescope with the wide public during its observing nights. Furthermore this coming Saturday, March 9th, there will be the first of a series of broadcasts in real time from GRANTECAN during which it will be possible to talk to the professional astronomers and ask them questions. This initiative is co-financed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.

Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la Universidad de La Laguna que forman parte del equipo científico y de operaciones para el Telescopio Espacial James Webb (JWST), de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA). El pasado mes de marzo impartió una conferencia sobre el desafío que supondrá desplegar esta gran infraestructura en el Espacio. "Aunque el IAC no esté directamente involucrado en el James Webb, hay tres mujeres españolas que estudiamos aquí y cuyo primer contacto con la

Con motivo de la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer compartimos la entrevista que realizamos a Begoña Vila, ingeniera de Sistemas de Instrumentos del Telescopio Espacial James Webb, durante su visita al IAC como ponente en el Worskhop sobre el JWST celebrado en La Laguna. En ella hablamos sobre las características que hacen de este telescopio un proyecto tan relevante. “En relación con el Día Internacional de la Mujer, hay mucho que hacer todavía, pero se puede conciliar. Y, sobre todo, que cada mujer tome sus decisiones. No porque la sociedad espere esto o lo otro, sino porque tú

The World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that NASA DART mission will have on its orbit.