The CLASP experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, opens a new research window in astrophysics by being able to measure polarization signals in two spectral lines of the solar ultraviolet radiation. The observed polarization provides information on the magnetic field and geometry of the plasma in the enigmatic transition region between the chromosphere and corona of the Sun. CLASP is an international project whose first results have just been published in the The Astrophysical Journal.

May 27th will be the last day to sign up for those teachers who want to attend this course, which will be held in Tenerife from 10th to 14th July, organised by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación del Profesorado (INTEF), the Universidad International Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

May 27th will be the last day to sign up for those teachers who want to attend this course, which will be held in Tenerife from 10th to 14th July, organised by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y Formación del Profesorado (INTEF), the Universidad International Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

Life, as we know it, exists only on Earth. The emergence of life here may be a matter of probability or luck, but in Science there is no place for the second. Evidence is needed and, for this reason, there are researchers like Malcolm Fridlund, an expert on Astrobiology and Exoplanets, bent on finding other earths that can host some form of life, however simple it may be. Professor at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and Affiliated Professor at the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg (Sweden), he has been involved in instrumental development and space missions of ESA and NASA

This IAC project, funded by the FECYT, will allow us to put together the biggest panoramic image of our galaxy without using professional telescopes. The photographs will be taken with a digital camera from the Teide Observatory, and will generate material for many outreach and educational applications.

This IAC project, funded by the FECYT, will allow us to put together the biggest panoramic image of our galaxy without using professional telescopes. The photographs will be taken with a digital camera from the Teide Observatory, and will generate material for many outreach and educational applications.