News

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.

  • Windspeed readings taken by satellite at a height of 200 mbar (some 12 km), which have been proposed as an indicator of the observation quality of a site, give excellent results (speed, homogeneity) for our observatories. This confirms the quality of the ORM and OT for Adaptive Optics (OA). The figures are given beneath the photograph.
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  • Intergranular bright point.
    Most of the solar surface seems to be non-magnetic. However, it carries a magnetic flux and energy that easily exceed those of sunspots, plage and network all together. The solar magnetism studied so far represents only the 'tip of the iceberg'. The rest, known as 'magnetism of the quiet Sun' is been studied and characterized. The solar physicists of the IAC have played a leading role in this characterization, and the paper this highlight refers to points out a good example. Using the SST at the ORM, Sanchez Almeida et al. discovered, for the first time, magnetic bright points in the quiet
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  • The figure is an artist's impression of the functions of IAC-STAR. A number of the synthetic colour-magnitude diagrams generated by the programme can be seen (each in a different colour). The programme's access screen is visible in the background.
    A public programme (IAC-STAR) has been developed for generating of HR and C-M synthetic diagrams to investigate problems of star formation and population synthesis. The programme's outputs have multiple applications: from use as tools for studying the History of Star Formation in the galaxies, to applications in the field of Surface Brightness Fluctuation. IAC-STAR is a free access project via the World Wide Web from the url http://iac-star.iac.es/iac-star and is proving to be very successful.
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  • Este proyecto educativo, coordinado y gestionado desde el IAC y subvencionado por el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología pretende ayudar al profesorado de la ESO (Enseñanza Secundaria Obligatoria) y Bachillerato en el desarrollo de contenidos curriculares que puedan tratarse desde el ámbito de la Astronomía proporcionando, a su vez, un enfoque científico-cultural-humano de los mismos.
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  • Con el concurso “KDAMS PARA CIENCIAS?” (“¿Quedamos para ciencias?”) , el equipo del programa CANARIAS INNOVA pretende fomentar entre los escolares de Enseñanza Primaria y Secundaria de las islas Canarias el interés por la ciencia y la tecnología, por la investigación y por la divulgación científica. Para ello, quiere invitarles a producir su propio programa de radio sobre cualquiera de los temas científicos abordados por CANARIAS INNOVA. El tema que los alumnos elijan puede basarse tanto en el contenido central de esos programas emitidos, como en los campos abordados en cualquiera de sus
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