On Thursday June 2 nd the EMIR spectrograph was successfully linked to the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). After several days of trials following its arrival at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, on Wednesday it was moved to the base of the telescope and on Thursday morning it was maneuvered by crane up to the level of the side platforms of the GTC, and attached to the rotator where it will be in place to receive the light from the telescope. The teamwork between the groups from EMIR and the GTC was critical for the correct performance of these manoeuvres, which were very complicated

Hoy, 2 de junio, Pedro Sánchez, secretario general del PSOE y candidato a la Presidencia del Gobierno, visitó el Observatorio del Teide. Acompañado por el director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Rafael Rebolo, el subdirector del mismo, Carlos Martínez, y el astrónomo y administrador del Observatorio, Miquel Serra-Ricart, pudo recorrer algunas de las instalaciones ubicadas en él, como la Estación Óptica Terrestre (OGS), las torres solares VTT, y el Experimento QUIJOTE. En este último, se mostró especialmente impresionado por el objetivo que pretenden conseguir estos dos

The winners of the contest, whose objective is to raise awareness about the need to protect the night sky, will join a scientific expedition and will visit the Teide Observatory.

This unusual phenomenon, predicted by the theory of General Relativity, was discovered by chance by a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias while analysing images of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy.

May 25th will be the final date to sign up for those teachers who want to attend this course, which will be held in Tenerife from 4th to 8th July, organized by the National Institute for Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF), the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

Astronomy and computer science will be the fields for training young European researchers in order to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies.