The Board of Directors of the CTA Observatory (CTAO gGmbH), the company which directws the construction and the working of the future Cherenkov Telescope Arraty (CTA) is meeting this week in La Palma to monitor the state of the project. At the same time there will be a meeting of the Management Board of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING).

A joint observational campaign with the MAGIC telescopes at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma) and the VERITAS array at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Tucson, Arizona), has detected a new source emitting very-high-energy gamma rays from an unusual system consisting of a massive star and a pulsar. The study has just been published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in the inner bar of a double-barred galaxy close to the Milky Way. Structures of this type, previously detected only in outer, or single, bars are useful tracers of the evolution of the galaxies.

Hace 30 años, la Ley de protección del cielo de Canarias situó a la isla de La Palma en la constelación de los grandes observatorios del mundo y contribuyó al desarrollo de un sector, el de la Astrofísica, que ha resultado de indudable rentabilidad no sólo científica, sino también económica, social y cultural, para las Islas. Así se puso de manifiesto en el evento especial con motivo del aniversario de esta ley organizado en el municipio palmero de Los Llanos de Aridane por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el equipo del Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT), que sigue

For five days more than 80 students immersed themselves in techniques for the handling and analysis of large databases using computer programmes.

An international team, led by the astrophysicist Carolina von Essen, has used the OSIRIS spectrograph on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to study the chemical composition of a planet whose equilibrium temperature is around 3,200 °C.