Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered one of the brightest galaxies known from the epoch when the universo had 20% of its present age.

A total of 60 teachers are attending the course, organized in Tenerife by the IAC, INTEF and the UIMP

Ayer por la tarde tuvo lugar la inauguración desde la Open University, del Reino Unido, en conexión con el Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife), de los telescopios robóticos PIRATE y COAST, que forman parte de los laboratorios de enseñanza a distancia de esta universidad

This new project of astronomical observation on La Palma, for the detection of the optical counterparts of the sources of gravitational waves, was initiated today at an academic ceremony.

“Although giant telescopes are under construction, astronomical images with good resolution cannot be obtained unless they use Adaptive Optics”, warns Norbert Hubin, head of instrumentation at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), a system of four 8.2 m telescopes installed at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Observatory in La Silla, Chile. It was on the telescope of 3.6 m of that observatory where the first system of Adaptive Optics in the history of the Astronomy (called "COME-ON") was tried. This engineer was in Tenerife this week attending the conference on "Adaptive Optics for

The conference on "Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes" (AO4ELT5) which brought together in Tenerife almost 300 international specialists in this astronomical technique, was brought to a close this afternoon. This meeting, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has explored the common ground between astronomy and engineering which will improve the quality of the five projected future extremely large telescopes -the solar telescopes DKIST and EST, and the night-time telescopes GMT, TMT and E-ELT-, as well as for the present large telescopes, among them the