After more than two years without total lunar eclipses visible from Europe, next July 27 the Moon will cross the shadow of the Earth. With a totality of 102m, it will be the longuest lunar eclipse of the XXIth century. The phenomon will be broadcasted in live from Namibia, through sky-live.tv with the cooperation of the European Project STARS4ALL and the Observatory of high energies HESS, and from the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife, through the Facebook channel of the Museums of Tenerife. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates in these two activities.

An international team of astronomers, led by an ex‐student of the University of La Laguna (ULL), José R. Bermejo‐Climent, and a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), G. Battaglia, finds that some of the small galaxies that orbit around the Milky Way could modify the inner structure of their dark matter haloes already in the first phases of their life due to the energy produced by supernovae explosions.

A study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and among its authors is a team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

A world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed astronomers to locate, for the first time, the source of a cosmic neutrino coming from outside the Milky Way. The results, published in the journal Science, are being presented today at a press conference at the Headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.

The Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation and the President of the Government of the Canaries attended the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias which was held today at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna, Tenerife. Among other documents discussed were the Strategic Plan for the Canary Island Observatories, and a study of the socioeconomic impact of the astrophysics sector in the islands.

A study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Ana Monreal Ibero proves the presence of (probably) organic molecules in galaxies beyond the Milky Way.