The international projects of large telescopes for the Canaries are supported by all the joint adminstrations, according to what was approved this morning in the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the IAC, celebrated in La Laguna

Desde hoy y hasta el viernes, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias acoge la III edición del Curso Internacional de Verano "Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands", en el que participan 45 docentes de 8 países.

Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered one of the brightest galaxies known from the epoch when the universo had 20% of its present age.

A total of 60 teachers are attending the course, organized in Tenerife by the IAC, INTEF and the UIMP

Ayer por la tarde tuvo lugar la inauguración desde la Open University, del Reino Unido, en conexión con el Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife), de los telescopios robóticos PIRATE y COAST, que forman parte de los laboratorios de enseñanza a distancia de esta universidad

This new project of astronomical observation on La Palma, for the detection of the optical counterparts of the sources of gravitational waves, was initiated today at an academic ceremony.