From the Teide Observatory, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will follow Pan STARRS and 252p/Linear, the comets which have made the closest approach to the Earth since 1770

This morning, Elsa López visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) headquarters, in La Laguna, accompained by researchers and engineers of the centre. The writer, born in La Palma, who collaborated on the project "En un lugar del Universo..." to mark the fourth centenary of the death of Cervantes, was enthusiastic about this visit, that values as "very inspiring". "I'm surprised to see a multidisciplinary team of people working to convert words and figures into the information that will allow us to understand how the Universe works." Her visit to the Teide Observatory, scheduled

Novel observations by an international group of researchers with the CanariCam instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS provide new information about magnetic fields around the active nucleus of the galaxy Cygnus A

The astrophysicist of the iAC received the “IUEM 8 of March” prize, awarded by the University of La Laguna for her contribution to the advances of women in the scientific and social fields

The writer Elsa Lopez, born in La Palma, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, in Garafía (La Palma), inaugurating the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias transversal project "En un lugar del Universo..." in collaboration with the scientific institutions of the Canary Observatories and the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, of Museos de Tenerife. "There is a lot poetry in Astronomy", said Elsa fascinated after living a ninght of observation. She is the first of a groups of writers who will visit the astrophysics Observatories on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the death of

Mercedes Prieto Muñoz, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Professor at the University of La Laguna (ULL), received on March 8th in the Assembly Hall of the Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica Antonio González (UBO), the "IUEM 8th of March", prize which is awarded annually by the University Institute of Women's studies of the ULL. This award is granted to female researchers of the ULL who have outstanding research records and in view of their contribution to women's advances in the fields of science and society. In the specific case of Mercedes Prieto, "for