Registration is now open for the training course "PETeR: Investigating the Universe with robotic telescopes", which will take place between 25 May and 3 June for teachers in the Canary Islands, and between 26 May and 10 June for teachers in the rest of Spain. One of the main objectives of the Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is to train teachers and educators in astronomy and in the use of robotic telescopes as tools for students to develop their scientific and technological skills through guided research projects. In the

Ha sido aprobado el listado provisional de solicitudes recibidas respecto de las ayudas de Acción Social 2021. ACORDE CON LAS DIRECTRICES DEL PAS2021, SE ABRE UN PLAZO DE SUBSANACIÓN DE DIEZ DÍAS HÁBILES, ES DECIR, DESDE EL 12 HASTA EL 25 DE MAYO DE 2021, AMBOS INCLUSIVE.

A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete reference method to measure the natural brightness of the night sky using low-cost photometers. Of the 44 photometers in the survey, the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) stands out at the darkest of all the skies analysed. The night sky is not completely dark; even in the remotest places there is a glow in the sky produced by natural components, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and by artificial

On May 5th the Earth will pass through the cloud of dust and small fragments of rock which comet 1P/Halley left behind during one of its approaches to the Sun, giving rise to the meteors known as the Eta Aquariids. The sky-liv.tv channel, in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Laboratories (EELabs) project coordinated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), will broadcast this meteor shower as part of its activities in “Sounds of the Sky, a Citizen Science project of the FECYT to involve the whole family in classifying meteors, and also to make this task easier for visually

Si hablar en público suele ser un motive de ansiedad, la tensión aumenta todavía más cuando el objetivo es desarrollar una idea compleja en ciencia, como una investigación, un doctorado o nuevos resultados. El veterano curso de la Fundación Dr. Antoni Esteve How to improve your scientific presentations (con más de 25 ediciones presenciales en España y Francia) ha dado el salto en línea con una nueva versión que ofrece numerosas técnicas y consejos prácticos para mejorar las presentaciones orales. Dado que el inglés es la lengua internacional de la ciencia, el curso se desarrolla íntegramente

Daniel Nóbrega Siverio, a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) was recently awarded the “Early Career Researcher Prize” of the Division of Solar Physics of the European Physical Society (EPS).