The Advisory Research Commission (CAI for its Spanish initials) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) whose members are scientists with international prestige in the field, met yesterday in La Laguna to analyze the research and the technology of the Institute, and of the Observatories which it runs.

For five days around a hundred physicists from some 30 institutions from around the world have been meeting in La Palma to talk about the results of the AMS instrument, which is on the International Space Station. Among these are the first possible detections of primordial antimatter. The Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting, who was at the conference, was enshrined yesterday in the Pathway of the Stars of Science in Santa Cruz de La Palma.

“I still remember the surface of the Moon seen from the Teide Observatory”. He will never forget the image: Sharp, close up, and brilliant. It was the first time that he had observed our satellite through a large telescope. Since then Professor Samuel Ting had always wanted to return and enjoy the quality of the sky in the Canaries, and its Observatories. Almost 20 years later he has returned to be amazed again: he is visiting for the firs ttime the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, within the boundary of the municipality of Garafía (La Palma), accompanied by Rafael Rebolo, the current

The Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting presided over the inaugural talk at the conference at which, during this week, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration will meet this week. The AMS is an instrument installed on the International Space Station dedicated to the study of cosmic rays, dark matter, and the search for traces of antimatter in the very early Universe.

Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce a new method to make a precise analysis of the speed of the density waves which propagate in spiral galxies

Santa Cruz de La Palma will host a debate on the results obtained by this high-energy instrumentin recent years and will add a fourth star in the Science Stars Walk (Paseo de las Estrellas de la Ciencia) in honour of Physics Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting.