The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will join the celebration, on February 11th, of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, with a street activity in La Laguna aimed at giving publicity to the work carried out by women astronomers and engineers at the Institute, and to encourage girls to take up scientific and technological careers.

Con esta fotografía astronómica, obtenida en el marco del proyecto “NIÉPCE: del negativo al positivo”, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias abre su cuenta en Instagram

Con esta fotografía astronómica, obtenida en el marco del proyecto “NIÉPCE: del negativo al positivo”, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias abre su cuenta en Instagram

Today saw the closure in Arrecife (Lanzarote) of the IV SOLARNET Meeting "The Sun, from its interior to its outer atmosphere" at which the international scientific community has taken a look at the latest advances in the physics of the sun, and its instrumentation.

Today saw the closure in Arrecife (Lanzarote) of the IV SOLARNET Meeting "The Sun, from its interior to its outer atmosphere" at which the international scientific community has taken a look at the latest advances in the physics of the sun, and its instrumentation.

Its discovery, at 11.4 billion light-years, was possible thanks to the increase of the galaxy apparent brightness produced by the zoom effect of another galaxy located between the former and the Earth that acts like a gravitational lens.