This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.
The V International Summer Course “Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and designed to train primary and secondary school teachers, has started. For a week 30 teachers from 5 countries will particate in lectures and practical workshops on astronomy, and will gain first hand experience of how work is carried out in the Observatories.
For the fourth successive year the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the National Institute for Educational Technology and Teacher Training (INTEF), in collaboration with the International Menéndez Pelayo University (UIMP) has given teachers of secondary and pre-university education the opportunity to get to know the latest discoveries in astrophysics in a course given by professionals, thereby acquiring the tools for using them afterwards in the classroom.
Since 2009 almost 7,000 school students from La Palma have participated in the educational programme “Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” whose aim is to popularize the research in astrophysics being carried out at the Observatory among secondary school students of the Island.
Today marks the official start of this outreach project in astronomy, which promotes scientific education and supports the young people and the teachers who live in the saharaui refugee camps. The activities of astronomical popularization and the visits to the Canary Observatories will start on July 20th, and will last until October, when an international team, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will travel to the saharaui refugee camps near Tinduf, in Algeria. Amanar, which means The Pleiades” in Berber, is an astronomical outreach project to inspire the
The prizewinning thesis, with the title “Eruptive Phenomena in the solar atmosphere: radiative-magnetohydrodynamic models and the development of a numerical code” which was defended in July 2018 at the University of La Laguna, was directed by Fernando Moreno Insertis, Professor at the University of La Laguna and senior researcher at the IAC, and co-directed by Juan Martínez Sykora, of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) California. Nóbrega Siverio is a postdoctoral researcher at the Rossland Centre for Solar Physics at the University of Oslo, (Norway). In his thesis
On July 2nd there will be a total eclipse of the sun which will touch land only in Chile, Argentina, and on the island of Oeno a small corral atol in the centre of the Pacific. This astronomical event will be broadcast live via the web sky-live.tv, with the collaboration of the Cerro Tololo Observatory (Chile), and STARS4ALL, a project in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating.
