Con motivo del 30 aniversario de la aprobación de la Ley del Cielo, el próximo miércoles, 7 de noviembre, el IAC y el equipo del Telescopio de Treinta Metros organizan un evento en el municipio palmero de Los Llanos de Aridane. Paralelamente a una fiesta de las estrellas, “Acércate a tu cielo”, que consistirá en un encuentro popular de observación astronómica y chocolatada, se añadirá una mesa redonda sobre “El valor del cielo de La Palma”, precedida de una apertura oficial.

This annual meeting for young researchers- doctoral students and postdocs- will be dedicated to the analysis of big data bases in Astronomy. It is taking place from November 5th to 10th in the assembly hall of the general lecture theatre building on the Guajara Campus of the University of La Laguna.

On October 31st 1988 just 30 year ago today, the Spanish Government passed the Law for the Protection of the Astronomical Quality of the Observatories of the IAC, which became the first national law for protection of the sky in any country in the world.

After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part of the Scientific Team of this mission, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Javier Licandro and Julia de León have already started to work in the calibration of this images in preparation for the ones that will be obtained in December 2018 using color filters.

This morning at a press conference at the IAC the latest study of the economic and social impact of the Astrophysics Sector in the Canaries was presented, carried out by a team from the University of La Laguna and directed by the economist Professor Juan José Díaz Hernández. The “Astrophysics Sector” in the Canaries comprises the IAC, the numerous scientific institutions from around the world who work at the Canary Observatories, by the related industry dedicated to the sector, and by the services related to these installations. After analyzing the activity of the sector in the Islands, Juan

This morning at a press conference at the IAC the latest study of the economic and social impact of the Astrophysics Sector in the Canaries was presented, carried out by a team from the University of La Laguna and directed by the economist Professor Juan José Díaz Hernández.