The Technology Division of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has started to design and manufacture protective screens and other sanitary material to shield against the COVID-19 virus. At the request of a number of institutions, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the IAC has designed a protective screen, which, after receiving the approval of a prototype, has started to be manufactured in series in the Mechanical Workshop of the IAC in La Laguna. At the time of writing, a total of 150 units has been distributed to the City Council of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and the

On the night of 21st April we will be treated to the maximum of the Lyrids meteor shower. Just as for the other recent astronomical events we will have to see them from home, so that we will need to be very patient, because they will appear with a frequency of barely one every 10 or 15 minutes.

CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination with Switzerland, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with other European instituttions, has successfully complete its almost three month period of the verification and calibration of its instrument, with better results than expected. Astrophysicists from the IAC are leading a group of researchers and engineers who recommend the type of observations to monitor the behaviour of the satellite during its time in space and, as part of the science team, participate in

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The Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR, for its Spanish initials) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be offering, from next week, online training sessions for Spanish teachers