There will be open days at the Teide Observatory, Tenerife, on 21 22 June, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

From Monday, 17 June, Puerto de la Cruz will be hosting the XII JEM-EUSO collaboration international meeting to place an observatory to hunt for cosmic rays on board theInternationaSpace Station

SUNRISE, a solar telescope carried on board a stratospheric balloon to study the magnetic field of the Sun, was launched today from the Esrange Space Centre, near the city of Kiruna (Sweden)

Open Days for 2013 at the Teide Observatory are scheduled for Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June, from 10:00 to 15:00. Entry will be granted strictly according to order of arrival and vehicles must be parked in the parking area of the Observatory. This year, the bus company Titsa will participate in the initiative by providing a special service to the Observatory. A press release will be issued within the next few days on the IAC website giving further details. Further information: Poster (jpg, 1 MB) Poster (pdf, 25 MB) OT map (jpg, 700 KB) OT map (pdf, 13,4 MB)

At its Plenary Meeting, the local government (Cabildo) of Tenerife agreed unanimously to confer the Island of Tenerife Gold Medal to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), as well as to Loro Parque zoo and the painter Pedro González González. Further information

An international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), has detected the formation of a very remote galaxy from the violent collision of two other galaxies The data, obtained by NASA and ESA space telescopes, and by terrestrial telescopes, contradict a commonly-held theory that explains the formation of massive galaxies from the agglomeration of smaller galaxies over time When the Universe was three or four million year old it was already populated with massive red elliptical galaxies containing old stars. The