A mural of Street art produced by “Sabotaje al Montaje” which pays tribute to this American astronomer was presented this morning on behalf of the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the neighbourhood of the Faculty of Science. The initiative is part of the multidisciplinary Project “The return of Henrietta Leavitt. From school to a research career by way of the theatre” whose aim is to focus on the role of women in science, and to encourage girls to take up scientific careers.

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the preparatory phase for its construction, expected to star in 2021.

Este instrumento, en el que el IAC participa en su diseño y construcción, así como en el grupo científico, ha estudiado una muestra de trescientas estrellas en busca de planetas similares a la Tierra, demostrando su perfecto funcionamiento.

Invited by Nature Astronomy, Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de Chile, publish in this journal a review of the most recent results on the material that obscures active galactic nuclei obtained from infrared and X-ray observations, their respective fields of research.

Closure of the Cosmology School, organized by the IAC, celebrated during last week in the Town Council of Pájara with the participation of 31 specialist in the field and 50 students from 16 countries

This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC, at the Teide Observatory, as an element of the Project “NIÉPCE: from the negative to the positive”, which will be an element of the exhibition “100 square moons”