News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

  • Participantes en el Gender in Physics Day. Crédito: Elena Mora (IAC).
    Las Políticas de Igualdad en Ciencia han centrado la atención del tercer bloque del congreso, clausurado en el Hotel Nivaria, en La Laguna, con una mesa debate donde se expusieron algunas iniciativas y proyectos nacionales y europeos en materia de igualdad de género ya en curso, así como posibles medidas a implantar para disminuir la brecha entre hombres y mujeres.
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  • Inauguración del GiPD a cargo de Rafael Rebolo, director del IAC; Carlos Alonso, presidente del Cabildo de Tenerife; y José Alberto Díaz, alcalde del Ayuntamiento de La La Laguna. Crédito: Miguel Briganti, SMM (IAC).
    Esta mañana se ha inaugurado en La Laguna el congreso Gender in Physics Day, un encuentro organizado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) que se enmarca en el proyecto europeo GENERA (Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area), y cuyo objetivo es crear un foro para debatir e intercambiar propuestas y experiencias para promover la igualdad de género desde la escuela hasta la carrera investigadora en Física.
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  • Cartel del Gender in Physics Day (GiPD). Crédito: IAC.
    This is the subtitle of Gender in Physics Day (GiPD) Spain 2017, a meeting organized byte Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which starts on October 23rd, in the context of the project GENERA ( Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area) with the aim of creating interchange, debate and proposals for the promotion of gender equality in Physics
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  • Captura del vídeo de la ocultación de la estrella UCAC4 410-143659 por Tritón. Crédito: Sergio Velasco (IAC).
    On the night of 5th of October a star in the sky “was switched off”. Triton, the largest of the moons of Neptune, at some 4,500 million kilometres from the Earth passed in front of the star UCAC4 410-143659, briefly occulting it. It is not at all frequent that during their “cosmic passage” around the Sun, the planets and their satellites cross the line of sight to a distant star, but the telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories, among others, were able to point to the sky just when this occultation, which lasted 145 seconds, was taking place. Its occultation was observed with diverse
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