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.

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  • Asteroid near Mars
    Press release
    Astronomers confirm a new “Trojan” asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars
    Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has confirmed that the asteroid 2023 FW14, discovered last year, is accompanying the red planet in its journey around the Sun, ahead of Mars and in the same orbit. With this new member, the group of Trojans which accompany Mars has increased in number to 17. But it shows differences in its orbit and chemical composition which may indicate that it is a captured asteroid, of a primitive type. The results are published in
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    Teacher training at IACTEC: proyect Planet Change
    On February 21st and 22nd 2024, IACTEC organized a hybrid presential/telecom course on dissemination of Space Sciences with online tools, dedicated to secondary school teachers. Themes covered include wildfire observation from space using the Earth Observation Browser from Copernicus Project (a specific course on EO Browser had already been held in 2023), solar panels seen from space using Geographical Information Systems such as Google Earth and Google Maps, Near Earth Objets, and light pollution. A total of 15 teachers attended the course. This course was developed in the frame of Planet
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  • Ana Escorza receiving the La Caixa Foundation grant
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    La Caixa Foundation awards 5 research grants for doctoral and post-doctoral projects at the IAC
    One male and one female researcher received the Junior Leader postdoctoral fellowship and three others received INPhINIT Incoming PhD fellowships. The aim is to retain and attract talent to promote research excellence in Spain and Portugal. The Scholarship Programme of the "la Caixa" Foundation held the financial aid award ceremony yesterday, Tuesday 12 March, which will benefit research staff at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). This programme of INPhINIT Incoming PhD and Junior Leader postdoctoral fellowships will reach a total of 105 people from more than 60 research centres
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  • Presentation of the Junior Research Award
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    IAC astrophysicist Arianna Di Cintio receives the Junior Research Award at ULL's Institutional Day
    Arianna Di Cintio, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and professor at the University of La Laguna, was awarded yesterday Monday, March 11, at the awards gala held for the Institutional Day of the University of La Laguna. The award corresponds to the junior category, referring to research personnel born after 1984, recognizing the quality of research at the scientific and social level and for its particular value and interest in the socioeconomic environment, its social repercussion and international impact. Di Cintio is an Italian researcher specialized in galaxy
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  • 8M
    Press release
    El IAC da pasos firmes en su compromiso continuo con la Igualdad
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad con la creación, en 2008, de una comisión específica El Instituto de Astrofísica de Catarís (IAC) reivindica este 8 de Marzo el papel de las instituciones científicas como locomotora de los cambios sociales y demuestra su compromiso con la Igualdad. El IAC fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad, adelantándose a las medidas obligatorias por las distintas leyes. Los primeros pasos en materia de iniciativas orientadas a la igualdad de género se iniciaron en 2008 con la
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  • Clemencia Hardisson Expo@IACTEC
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    Expo at IACTEC: Clemencia Hardisson
    This exhibition is a journey through the life of the La Laguna aristocrat Clemencia Hardisson, who, among other contributions, gave the land on which the IAC Headquarters and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos, are currently erected, among other purpose-built buildings, public and private. The exhibition will be open in the Multipurpose room of the IACTEC building, in the morning and afternoon, and admission will be open to the public, free of charge.
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