May 25th will be the final date to sign up for those teachers who want to attend this course, which will be held in Tenerife from 4th to 8th July, organized by the National Institute for Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF), the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

This spectrograph, designed and constructed by the IAC will arrive tomorrow at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.

One of the programmes of collaboration with Japan is related with the possible detection of gravitational waves of cosmological origin

This scientific collaboration will give an impulse to the development of instruments for large telescopes, including the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS

On Thursday 12th May the space agencies ESA and NASA celebrated at a workshop the XX anniversary of the SOHO ( Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite at the Institut D'Astrophysique Spatiale(IAS), at Orsay, Paris, a reunion at which members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) were present. The IAC participated from the start in two of the twelve instuments on board the satellite: GOLF ( Global Oscillations at Low Frequency) and VIRGO ( Variability of IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations). The previous day during the afternoon the group of researchers on this latter

This is the fourth of the audiovisual productions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with funding from the Severo Ochoa programme