Con motivo de la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujer compartimos la entrevista que realizamos a Begoña Vila, ingeniera de Sistemas de Instrumentos del Telescopio Espacial James Webb, durante su visita al IAC como ponente en el Worskhop sobre el JWST celebrado en La Laguna. En ella hablamos sobre las características que hacen de este telescopio un proyecto tan relevante. “En relación con el Día Internacional de la Mujer, hay mucho que hacer todavía, pero se puede conciliar. Y, sobre todo, que cada mujer tome sus decisiones. No porque la sociedad espere esto o lo otro, sino porque tú

A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). The collaboration will be aimed principally at three areas: Space, Medical Technology, and Large Telescopes.

The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the spiral structures detected by an international team, including a member who researches at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the University of La Laguna (ULL) show that this is not the case. The results of this work are published today in the journal Nature Astronomy.

To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”. It will be available in the social networks and the video channels (YouTube and Daylimotion) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and its objective is to continue drawing attention to the work that women in this Institute carry out, and to encourage the youngest girls to opt for scientific and technical careers.

El equipo preparó las observaciones que se realizarán con el espectrógrafo EMIR instalado en el Gran Telescopio Canarias.

Because of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women’s Day, women scientists and engineers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will participate, throughout February and March, in a number of activities to show the role of women in science and to arouse interest in science in young girls.