Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, support astronomer at the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) will give an outreach lecture on Friday June 1st at 19:00 in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife, in which she will talk about the details of this great radioastronomical project.

Ayer tuvo lugar en el Observatorio del Teide la presentación de un proyecto del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) que durante los próximos 4 años dotará al profesorado de Tenerife de información y material para trasladar la Astronomía a las aulas. A la presentación acudieron, además de personal del IAC, autoridades del Cabildo de Tenerife, quien financia la iniciativa a través del programa Tenerife Innova del área Tenerife 2030, y de la Consejería de Educación y Universidades del Gobierno de Canarias.

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has published a detailed study of the evolution of the nebula surrounding the symbiotic star R Aquarii. The study employed observations from telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, and Chile taken over the course of more than two decades.

Ayer se celebró en La Laguna la X edición del Día de Nuestra Ciencia (DNC) del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), un encuentro anual en el que el personal investigador del Instituto presenta a sus colegas los trabajos que se están desarrollando en el centro para darlos a conocer y fomentar las colaboraciones entre los grupos de investigación y las diferentes áreas y departamentos del Instituto.

SPICA (SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics) has been selected, along with two other projects from among the 25 proposals presented, for the final stage of study and development for the next class M mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the leadership of the Dutch Institute for Space Research (SRON) and in close collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the project has major participation from Spain (Co-PI on the SAFARI instrument) from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA) the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), the Instituto de

We announce the call for IAC-Nordic proposals for semester 2018B. Deadline: 28 May 2018, at 17:00 h Canarian time (18:00 h CEST) Call for IAC-Nordic NOT proposals for semester 2018B Following the Agreement between IAC and NOTSA for the continued operation of the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), 5% of the observing time at NOT is offered for joint IAC-Nordic research programs: this is known as the IAC-Nordic Observing Time. This observing time is aimed at reinforcing the collaboration and synergies between the IAC and the Nordic communities through joint programs. The IAC-Nordic program