Telescopes from the two observatories of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canraries (IAC) observe the new asteroid close to the Earth.

Takaaki Kajita was planning to go October 9th to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), for the ceremony of the stone laying for the prototype of the LST (Large Size Telescope) as the director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR; Tokyo), a very relevant institution in the LST consortium. A couple of days before, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics (along with Arthur B. Mc Donald) for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which prove that neutrinos have mass. Would he still come?

The first eight Severo Ochoa centres, among them the IAC, have had their awards renewed for four more years. Scientific excellence and innovation in Spain have been consolidated with three new Severo Ochoa awards, and four “María de Maeztu” awards.Rafael Rebolo, the Director of the IAC in a statement said that “The renovation of the award to the IAC is excellent news, which encourages us to keep working to carry out the best science and technology”.

Diez años en tecnología es muchísimo, se comentó ayer durante el Tecnodía del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), una jornada que tuvo como protagonista el Área de Instrumentación Científica del Instituto y que dio comienzo con unas palabras de bienvenida de su coordinadora, Begoña García.

The second of the audiovisual films produced by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries with funding from the Severo Ochoa programme

An international group of astronomers has found an overcontact binary system which is the most massive and hottest known so far, using the VLT (Very Large Telescope) of ESO (European Southern Observatory) in Chile. The system, named VFTS 352 is in the Tarantula Nebula.