Since 2009 almost 7,000 school students from La Palma have participated in the educational programme “Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” whose aim is to popularize the research in astrophysics being carried out at the Observatory among secondary school students of the Island.

Today marks the official start of this outreach project in astronomy, which promotes scientific education and supports the young people and the teachers who live in the saharaui refugee camps. The activities of astronomical popularization and the visits to the Canary Observatories will start on July 20th, and will last until October, when an international team, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will travel to the saharaui refugee camps near Tinduf, in Algeria. Amanar, which means The Pleiades” in Berber, is an astronomical outreach project to inspire the

The prizewinning thesis, with the title “Eruptive Phenomena in the solar atmosphere: radiative-magnetohydrodynamic models and the development of a numerical code” which was defended in July 2018 at the University of La Laguna, was directed by Fernando Moreno Insertis, Professor at the University of La Laguna and senior researcher at the IAC, and co-directed by Juan Martínez Sykora, of the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) California. Nóbrega Siverio is a postdoctoral researcher at the Rossland Centre for Solar Physics at the University of Oslo, (Norway). In his thesis

On July 2nd there will be a total eclipse of the sun which will touch land only in Chile, Argentina, and on the island of Oeno a small corral atol in the centre of the Pacific. This astronomical event will be broadcast live via the web sky-live.tv, with the collaboration of the Cerro Tololo Observatory (Chile), and STARS4ALL, a project in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating.

Organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) they will take place on June 14 and 15th.

The Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita is one of the leading world experts in neutrino physics. These particles have a very tiny mass, and they hardly interact with other kinds of matter. This elusive quality meant that for many years after their prediction their existence was in doubt, even though they are the most abundant elementary particles in the universe. However since the 1950’s not only have they been detected, but it has been shown that there are several types of neutrinos, and that studying them could be the key to solving important puzzles about the origin of matter in the