News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • Interview
    INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Pablo Jáuregui: "If science is narrated well, it can be exciting for all types of audiences"
    Pablo Jáuregui has been one of the pioneers of science journalism in Spain. He has been writing for many years about science in one of the most widely read media in Spanish, El Mundo. He praises the work done by science bloggers, but insists that there is a difference between their work and that of the journalists. For him they are complementary but not substitutes. In “100XCIENCIA” he will be able to share this view with science and specialized communicators. This will take place in La Palma from 7th to 9th October.
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    INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Kenneth Chang: “Everyone wishes there were a magic formula for figuring out the best mix of applied science and pure science”
    Kenneth Chang covers several subjects: chemistry, geology, physics... Instead of receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois he attended the science writing program at University of California at Santa Cruz. He worked at The Los Angeles Times, the Greenwich Time in Connecticut, The Newark Star-Ledger and ABCNEWS.com prior to joining the Times in 2000. He believes that science, at its core, is about wondering. Just being curious…
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  • Press release
    El IAC y Santander Universidades invitan a 25 jóvenes periodistas científicos a ‘100xCIENCIA’
    Gracias al acuerdo firmado entre ambas instituciones, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) concede 25 ayudas a jóvenes periodistas científicos o estudiantes de periodismo de últimos cursos y de distintos países para asistir a “100xCIENCIA”, uno de los encuentros más importantes en esta materia y que levanta más expectación internacional.
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  • Image of the comic web gas simulated by Claudio Dalla Vecchia, IAC researcher. The center of the red halo shows a galaxy in the process of formation. The simulation has been carried out using the supercomputer MareNostrum, within the project EAGLE/ADGE. C
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    How is a galaxy fed?
    Using the GTC telescope, an international team lead be astronomers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected galaxies feeding directly from cosmic web gas. The observation is both expected and surprising – gas feeding is expected from theory, but had never been observed before.
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    FOTONOTICIA: Eclipse total de superluna desde Canarias
    El eclipse total de Luna, que tuvo lugar la madrugada de hoy, 28 de septiembre, entre las 3:11 y las 4:23 hora local en Canarias (una hora más en la Península Ibérica), fue observado por varios grupos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) desde diferentes localizaciones de las Islas. Un equipo de astrónomos del proyecto europeo GLORIA, liderado por el investigador del IAC Miquel Serra-Ricart, retransmitió en directo, a través de la web ( sky-live.tv) y en colaboración con TVE, el espectáculo astronómico desde tres islas del Archipiélago Canario: Tenerife, Fuerteventura y La Palma
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