The Canarian Observatories offer extraordinary potencial for scientific exploration of the Universe with more than 20 fully operational profesional telescopes. Thanks to the Slooh initiative, with its two telescopes at the Teide Observatory, amateur astronomers from all over the world can developed their own observing programs. Further information: Spanish IAC Press Release Slooh press release  

The twenty-fifth Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be held in La Laguna, starting Monday, 11 November, and will end on 22 November. A total of 25 doctoral and post-doctoral students will attend the School, which will provide them with a unique opportunity to extend their knowledge of magnetic fields and to work with world-renowned experts in the field. Further information: Spanish Press Release Winter School 2013  

On 3 November the forthcoming eclipse of the Sun will be a direcly transmitted from the SibiloiNational Park on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya.The duration of the eclipse will be 2h 14m (14:13-16:27 CET), and the event will be transmitted directly between 15:20 and 15:30 CET. Direct connection (Sunday, 3 November). Further information: Spanish press release VISIBILITY FROM EUROPE* The eclipse will be partial from the south of Europe. Maximum occultation will occur at 13:30 in Seville, 13:35 in Madrid, 13:50 in Barcelona, 14:20 in Catania (Italy) and 14:40 in Chania (Greece). all times

From 3 to 23 November, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will bring astronomy to the public in the form of multiple activities, workshops and talks on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Further information: Spanish Release

The GLORIA (GLObal Robotic-telescopes Intelligent Array) will carry out a direct transmission of the event from Kenya. GLORIA will also perform various educational activities with students.

When the first exoplanet was discovered orbiting a star in 1995 the astrophysics community could not have imagined that, two decades later, the study of exoplanets would form one of the fundamental pillars of modern astronomy, and that the number of exoplanets discovered would reach a total of 1000, as attested by the latest edition of The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. With the excuse of having reached such a round number of planets found we now present you with so key facts on these distant worlds beyond the Solar System. For this we let Hans Deeg and Roi Alonso, researchers at the