Thanks to an agreement between the SARA (Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy) consortium of universities in the United States and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (JKT), after a decade of inactivity, has been transformed into a telescope under remote control operation to be used for research, education, and outreach.

During the act the excellent level of scientific collaboration between Japan and Spain was highlighted. These two countries, together with Germany, are the main contributors to the LST consortium. The prototype LST (Large Size Telescope) of 23 m diameter, will be the biggest Cherenkov telescope in the northern hemisphere.

El presidente del Gobierno de Canarias y la Secretaria de Estado de Investigación clausuran el foro “100XCIENCIA”

The best Spanish science on the catwalk

This Friday, October 9th at five o’clock in the afternoon, the ceremony of the stone laying for the biggest Cherenkov telescope in the northern hemisphere, the prototype of the LST (Large Size Telescope) with a diameter of 23 metres, will take place at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma. Takaaki Kajita, newly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, will be present at the event.

Patricia Fernández de Lis is the Editor in Chief of the Science and Technology section of El País, due to an agreement reached by this outstanding newspaper with Materia, the science information website created by the team which runs Science section of Público when the printed version of that newspaper had closed down. She will be one of the speakers in “100Xciencia” a forum where journalists and scientists will be able to debate about the role of the popularization of science.