Tomorrow, Saturday, an international conference will open in Tenerife dealing with the ideas and current researchon the origin of the Universe, organized b y British and American universities, with funding from the John Templeton foundation

From 23 to 28 August the European project GLORIA (GLOal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array), in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will provide direct aurora borealis transmissions. 23 to 25 August, Greenland Connection from 1:00 to 1:30 UT (2:00-2:30 Local Canarian time) 26 to 28 August, Iceland Connection from 23:30 to 24:00 UT (0:30-1:00 Local Canarian time). Contact: Miquel Serra-Ricart, IAC researcher, mserra [at] iac.es (mserra[at]iac[dot]es) / 0034649848305. Satellite contact in Greenland (11:00-12:00 UT): 00 870772321397 / 00 870776729156 Associations that organize observations

Miquel Serra-Ricart, researcher at the Insituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), will coordinate the expedition which will observe the phenomenon of the Aurora Borealis from the south of Greenland and Iceland from August 23rd to 28th

Observations of a group of very distant galaxies with the "Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)" show for the first time that the formation of their stars was not continuous

Imágenes de la SuperLuna del 10 de agosto de 2014 tomadas desde diferentes localizaciones próximas al Observatorio del Teide, en Tenerife (Islas Canarias)

This year the meteor shower will produce its maximum activity during the night of August 12th to 13th, although the full moon will hamper the observations