On Thursday 12th May the space agencies ESA and NASA celebrated at a workshop the XX anniversary of the SOHO ( Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite at the Institut D'Astrophysique Spatiale(IAS), at Orsay, Paris, a reunion at which members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) were present. The IAC participated from the start in two of the twelve instuments on board the satellite: GOLF ( Global Oscillations at Low Frequency) and VIRGO ( Variability of IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations). The previous day during the afternoon the group of researchers on this latter

This is the fourth of the audiovisual productions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with funding from the Severo Ochoa programme

The astrophysicist of the IAC was invested Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of La Laguna this morning

The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). The results are published today in Nature. ( Video on YouTube)

Monday 9th of May, the YouTube channel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be broadcasting live the observations being carried out by the professional observers from the solar towers at the Teide and Roque de los Muchachos Observatories

In 2012 it was Venus. Now it’s time for Mercury to pass in front of the Sun. For nearly 8 hours on May the 9th, we will have the opportunity to see the Planet Mercury as an small black point transiting on the surface of the Sun.