Registration is now open for the training course "PETeR: Investigating the Universe with robotic telescopes", which will take place between 25 May and 3 June for teachers in the Canary Islands, and between 26 May and 10 June for teachers in the rest of Spain. One of the main objectives of the Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is to train teachers and educators in astronomy and in the use of robotic telescopes as tools for students to develop their scientific and technological skills through guided research projects. In the

Ha sido aprobado el listado provisional de solicitudes recibidas respecto de las ayudas de Acción Social 2021. ACORDE CON LAS DIRECTRICES DEL PAS2021, SE ABRE UN PLAZO DE SUBSANACIÓN DE DIEZ DÍAS HÁBILES, ES DECIR, DESDE EL 12 HASTA EL 25 DE MAYO DE 2021, AMBOS INCLUSIVE.

João Mira-Gomes, Portuguese Ambassador to Spain, visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) headquarters in La Laguna this morning, together with Vicente M. Álvarez Gil, Portuguese Consul in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and several members of his team, accompanied by Rafael Rebolo, Director of the IAC, and Mahmoudreza Oshagh, senior postdoctoral researcher. During their tour of the facilities, they were informed about the different projects that are being developed in the framework of the Portuguese-Spanish collaboration. The IAC participates in several consortiums and scientific

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) strengthened their relationship via an agreement to regulate the teaching and research collaboration between the two institutions. The agreement sets up an operational structure and the various commitments so that the two institutions can develop successfully their objectives of creating and spreading knowledge through scientific activity and unitersity teaching. The agreement was signed yesterday in the IACTEC building in the La Laguna Science and Technology Park (in Las Mantecas) by Rafael Rebolo, the

A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete reference method to measure the natural brightness of the night sky using low-cost photometers. Of the 44 photometers in the survey, the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) stands out at the darkest of all the skies analysed. The night sky is not completely dark; even in the remotest places there is a glow in the sky produced by natural components, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and by artificial

The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern Physics at the same time: the problema of Charge and Parity in the strong interaction, and the mystery of dark matter. However, in spite of the high scientific interest in finding it, the search at high radio frequency -above 6 GHz- has been almost left aside for the lack of the high sensitivity technology which could be built at reasonable cost. Until now.