Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la Universidad de La Laguna que forman parte del equipo científico y de operaciones para el Telescopio Espacial James Webb (JWST), de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA). El pasado mes de marzo impartió una conferencia sobre el desafío que supondrá desplegar esta gran infraestructura en el Espacio. "Aunque el IAC no esté directamente involucrado en el James Webb, hay tres mujeres españolas que estudiamos aquí y cuyo primer contacto con la

A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). The collaboration will be aimed principally at three areas: Space, Medical Technology, and Large Telescopes.

The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the spiral structures detected by an international team, including a member who researches at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the University of La Laguna (ULL) show that this is not the case. The results of this work are published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”. It will be available in the social networks and the video channels (YouTube and Daylimotion) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and its objective is to continue drawing attention to the work that women in this Institute carry out, and to encourage the youngest girls to opt for scientific and technical careers.

El equipo preparó las observaciones que se realizarán con el espectrógrafo EMIR instalado en el Gran Telescopio Canarias.

Because of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women’s Day, women scientists and engineers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will participate, throughout February and March, in a number of activities to show the role of women in science and to arouse interest in science in young girls.