The dramatist from La Palma is the fourth author to participate in the multidisciplinary project “En un lugar del Universo…” which brings literature and astronomy together during the IVth centenary of the death of Cervantes. On Tuesday, he will visit the Headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Teide Observatory. After that, he will visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.

Anybody who wants to get to know this observatory can go in a group to visit the telescopes, make their own observations and learn basic astronomical concepts.

Some of those participating in the STARMUS festival, which was celebrated this week in the south of Tenerife, invited to the panel discussion “108 minutes” which took place yesterday at the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in Garafía (La Palma) today visited the Headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and in particular the Instrumentation Division. These invitees were accompanied by the Director of the IAC, Rafael Rebolo, and by some researchers and graduate students from the Institute. Related press release: “108 minutes” at the

The installations, when built, will serve to boost the island of La Palma as a tourist destination for those interested in the Science and the Astronomy developed in the Archipelago by the IAC and the Canary Observatories

Invited speakers at STARMUS debated in La Palma about the threat by asteroids, climate change, and scientific education.

The cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who was recently named Honorary Professor of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) was the key figure of the first session, -moderated by Brian Cox, physicist and science popularizer on the BBC- on the third day of the Starmus Festival in Tenerife. In his talk, with the title “A brief History of Mine” he began by describing his childhood, and his years at school and at university, until he obtained his studentship at Cambridge, to study for his PhD in cosmology. He explained that during his student years “they diagnosed my