The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias recovers this American woman asronomer as a character in a multimedia play within an outrreach project whose aim is to stimulate scientific careers for women, and to point up their role in Physics and Astronomy.

On August 21st there will be one of the most anticipated total solar eclipses in recent years: the great American eclipse. The band of totality will cross the United States diagonally from west to east More that 100 million people should be able to watch the eclipse directly.

The European project STARS4ALL and sky-live.tv will show live the Perseid meteor shower from the Teide Observatory and the Montsec Astronomical Park. The STARS4ALL presentation will also include educational activities for students.

El escritor palmero finaliza su estancia en el marco del proyecto del IAC “En un lugar del Universo…” durante la que ha podido conocer los telescopios de las Islas y cómo es el trabajo relacionado con la Astrofísica.

A study which will be published tomorrow in Nature magazine and in which IAC researchers have participated, with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER-IAC at the Teide Observatory will help to clear up some unknown factors in the initial phase and the evolution of the huge jets of matter and energy which form as a consequence of these explosions, which are the most powerful in the universe.

The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last night made its first observation after the necessary period of setting up and testing. They were able to obtain high quality data of some key objects such as the galaxy first explored by the Complutense university, known as UCM2325+2318, as well as the galaxies Haro 44 and NGC 77469. In the false colour image of the galaxy UCM2325+2318 the emission from the nitrogen and the hydrogen in the warm (10,000 degree) gas are shown