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

Al acto oficial asistieron representantes del Gobierno de Canarias, del Cabildo Insular de La Palma, del Ministerio de Hacienda, de la Comisión Europea, de GRANTECAN S.A. y del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Todos ellos destacaron la importancia de conocer la aportación europea a proyectos en las Islas como el Gran Telescopio Canarias y el valor añadido de los mismos.

Ivan Oteo, a former student of the University of La Laguna and of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias led the international team which made the discovery. Until now astronomers thought that these phenomena occurred 3,000 million years after the Big Bang, but this new result shows that they were already happening when the Universe was 1,500 million years old.

Organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Department of Finance of the Government of the Canaries, this exhibition brings to the public all the technological development projects of Astrophysics in the Islands which have been funded via the European Fund of Regional Development (FEDER)