A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements, giving rise to successive generations of stars in these "astronomical fossils".

The epidemiologist, who is considered by Forbes magazine the young European less than 30 years old with most influence in science and health, gave a lecture to the personnel of the IAC about “Global Health” and will give another to the general public with the title “Global Health, a vaccine against Ebola” in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife.

The XXVIII edition of the Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics will take place from 7th to 16th November at the UNED centre, in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias' headquarters, in in La Laguna, Tenerife.

If this Giant Large Telescope, of 30 m, could not be sited on Hawai, it would be installed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

In order to familiarize students in the 4th year of their high school career with the science carried out at the astrophysical installations on La Palma, yesterday a new edition of this project began. It is a successor to projects in previous years, which have benefitted 4,800 students on the island.

The experiment, with a sodium laser, was performed from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, owing to the exceptional quality of its sky