The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) organises and promotes the Spanish edition of the Cosmos Prize, an international project dedicated to promoting scientific literacy and curiosity. Its mission is to promote critical thinking and scientific culture among young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, through reading and

Cosmocolor is an exhibition which has selected some of the best pics of the sky obtained by amateur astronomers who participated in "Fotocósmica 2004", a competition organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to create the Astronomical Image Bank (BIA). Amateur astronomers have a large number of very valuable and high quality