Invited by Nature Astronomy, Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de Chile, publish in this journal a review of the most recent results on the material that obscures active galactic nuclei obtained from infrared and X-ray observations, their respective fields of research.

Closure of the Cosmology School, organized by the IAC, celebrated during last week in the Town Council of Pájara with the participation of 31 specialist in the field and 50 students from 16 countries

This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC, at the Teide Observatory, as an element of the Project “NIÉPCE: from the negative to the positive”, which will be an element of the exhibition “100 square moons”

Yun Wang, cosmologist, poet and invited to the international scientific “Cosmology School in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which is taking place in Fuerteventura during this week, is currently a cosmologist at IPAC at the California Institute of Technology and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma. In these centers she explores the nature of dark energy. In 2012, Yun Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her leadership in dark energy research. “The nature of dark energy

The International Scientific Conference La Gomera Accretion Week 2017, dealing with extremely compact stellar objects, which lasted from 11 to 15th September brought together 65 researchers from 14 countries, and 4 continents, in the municipality of San Sebastián de la Gomera, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) with the collaboration of the Cabildo Insular of La Gomera and the Town Council of San Sebastián

Between September 18th and 22nd the international scientific school “Cosmology School in the Canary Islands” will take place in Pájara (Fuerteventura), organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), with the collaboration of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura and the town council of Pájara