A total of 60 teachers are attending the course, organized in Tenerife by the IAC, INTEF and the UIMP

Ayer por la tarde tuvo lugar la inauguración desde la Open University, del Reino Unido, en conexión con el Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife), de los telescopios robóticos PIRATE y COAST, que forman parte de los laboratorios de enseñanza a distancia de esta universidad

This new project of astronomical observation on La Palma, for the detection of the optical counterparts of the sources of gravitational waves, was initiated today at an academic ceremony.

The conference on "Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes" (AO4ELT5) which brought together in Tenerife almost 300 international specialists in this astronomical technique, was brought to a close this afternoon. This meeting, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has explored the common ground between astronomy and engineering which will improve the quality of the five projected future extremely large telescopes -the solar telescopes DKIST and EST, and the night-time telescopes GMT, TMT and E-ELT-, as well as for the present large telescopes, among them the

IAC scientists Julia de León and Miquel Serra-Ricart will participate in this world-wide activity with a range of outreach activities whose aim is to explain how research into these these objects is performed, and to warn the population about the danger they pose for Earth.

Las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas 2017 del Observatorio del Teide (Izaña, Tenerife), celebradas el pasado viernes 23 y sábado 24 de junio, tuvieron una afluencia de más de 1.600 visitantes. Desde las 10 a las 15 h, los asistentes pudieron visitar algunos de los telescopios con los que cuenta el complejo astrofísico, como el IAC-80, la Pirámide Solar, la Estación Óptica Terrestre (OGS), el Experimento QUIJOTE, el Telescopio VTT, THEMIS y la cúpula de divulgación. Unos 50 astrónomos voluntarios realizaron visitas guiadas a las instalaciones, talleres divulgativos y observaciones en directo del