"The stars and their planets" is the theme chosen for the fourth edition of this training course, designed for school teachers, which will be held from 30th July to 3rd August, at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna (Tenerife ). Registration is free for Spanish teachers, and will remain open until July 15th or until the places are filled.

Solar physicists from throughout Europe will be meeting this week to discuss the scientific needs of the future European Solar Telescope (EST) whose installation is foreseen in one of the Canary Island Observatories: the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) or the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma).

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.

Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have observed with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a rare gaseous planet, with partly clear skies, and strong signatures of alkali metals in its atmosphere.

Ayer tuvo lugar en el Observatorio del Teide la presentación de un proyecto del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) que durante los próximos 4 años dotará al profesorado de Tenerife de información y material para trasladar la Astronomía a las aulas. A la presentación acudieron, además de personal del IAC, autoridades del Cabildo de Tenerife, quien financia la iniciativa a través del programa Tenerife Innova del área Tenerife 2030, y de la Consejería de Educación y Universidades del Gobierno de Canarias.

Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, support astronomer at the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) will give an outreach lecture on Friday June 1st at 19:00 in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife, in which she will talk about the details of this great radioastronomical project.