The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation visited the installations of the Headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna and the Teide Observatory accompanied by the Director and researchers at the Institute.

Specialists from different research institutions, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB), the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) dealt, for two days, with questions related to the present and future of this telescope.

Antonia María Varela and Héctor Socas will take part in the round-table discussion on Outreach to be held on the second day.

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) deeply regrets the death of the eminent theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Honorary Professor of this research centre.

The creation of SOMMa will allow the centres and the units to increase their impact, promote collaboration and networking and enrich the complete R+D system. SOMMa has presented the document “The SOMMa report: Actions needed to safeguard the competitivity of science” whose aim is to attract the attention of the politicians in order to tackle, urgently and permanently, some of the administrative problems in science.

Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) confirm the first detection of a relic galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope. The results of this research are published today in Nature magazine.