Rome, with its knowledge of the skies, oriented many of its cities according to the position of the heavenly bodies, notably to sunsets and sunrises during the solstices. With this in mind the Summer solstice will be broadcast directly form the Roman town of Medellín (Badajoz) with the participation of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Andrea Rodríguez and Miquel Serra-Ricart. The event will be viewable via the sky-live.tv channel, on the 20th of June, thanks to the collaboration of the European STARS4ALL project, and an initiative of the Government (Junta) of

Florian Lennert, Associate Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) and Frank Wenecke, founder of the German Company Dronemasters, have toured the installations of the Headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna to get to know at close quarters the work of the IAC, and its company for technological and commercial cooperation IACTEC.

"The stars and their planets" is the theme chosen for the fourth edition of this training course, designed for school teachers, which will be held from 30th July to 3rd August, at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna (Tenerife ). Registration is free for Spanish teachers, and will remain open until July 15th or until the places are filled.

Solar physicists from throughout Europe will be meeting this week to discuss the scientific needs of the future European Solar Telescope (EST) whose installation is foreseen in one of the Canary Island Observatories: the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) or the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma).

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) has awarded one of its prestigious “Synergy Grants” to three European scientists, among them the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Javier Trujillo Bueno, to join efforts for solving a very complex research problem of Solar Physics.