Dr. Rubén Sánchez-Janssen has been announced as the new Director of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING). Dr. Rubén Sánchez-Janssen will follow in the footsteps of Dr. Marc Balcells. Dr Sánchez-Janssen is an Astronomer and Project Scientist at STFC’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC), where he leads the development of scientific instrumentation and facilities for ground- and space-based astronomy from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared, with a particular emphasis on future missions. He specializes in galaxy evolution, with particular focus on low-mass galaxies and star cluster

Astronomers have used telescopes around the world, includingthe Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, to study the asteroid 1998 KY26, revealing it to be almost three times smaller and spinning much faster than previously thought. The asteroid is the 2031 target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission. The new observations offer key information for the mission’s operations at the asteroid. “We found that the reality of the object is completely different from what it was previously described as,” says astronomer Toni Santana-Ros, a

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) organiza el Premio Cosmos, un proyecto educativo internacional que llega por primera vez a España desde Canarias, con la colaboración del Área STEAM de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes, y el patrocinio de la Fundación CajaCanarias, así como el apoyo de la Real Academia de las Ciencias de Canarias. Con varias ediciones consolidadas en Italia, Francia y Países Bajos, el Premio Cosmos tiene como misión impulsar la cultura científica, despertar vocaciones y celebrar la mejor literatura de divulgación en