Astronomers Release Most Detailed Catalogue Ever Made of the Visible Milky Way. The production of the catalogue, IPHAS DR2 (the second release from the survey programme The INT Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane or IPHAS), is an example of modern astronomy's exploitation of 'big data' – it contains information on the 219 million detected objects, each of which is summarised in 99 attributes. With this catalogue release, the team are offering the world community free access to measurements taken through two broad band filters capturing light at the red end of the

Inaugurado un congreso internacional en Tenerife con la presencia de reconocidos filósofos y cosmólogos

Llegar primero solo sirve si lo has hecho bien, dice Rafael Rebolo, director del IAC, en la conferencia de apertura del congreso Philosophy of Cosmology que se celebra en Tenerife

Tomorrow, Saturday, an international conference will open in Tenerife dealing with the ideas and current researchon the origin of the Universe, organized b y British and American universities, with funding from the John Templeton foundation

From 23 to 28 August the European project GLORIA (GLOal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array), in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will provide direct aurora borealis transmissions. 23 to 25 August, Greenland Connection from 1:00 to 1:30 UT (2:00-2:30 Local Canarian time) 26 to 28 August, Iceland Connection from 23:30 to 24:00 UT (0:30-1:00 Local Canarian time). Contact: Miquel Serra-Ricart, IAC researcher, mserra [at] iac.es (mserra[at]iac[dot]es) / 0034649848305. Satellite contact in Greenland (11:00-12:00 UT): 00 870772321397 / 00 870776729156 Associations that organize observations

Miquel Serra-Ricart, researcher at the Insituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), will coordinate the expedition which will observe the phenomenon of the Aurora Borealis from the south of Greenland and Iceland from August 23rd to 28th