Entre los días 23 y 27 de julio se celebra en Tenerife el III Curso sobre Astrofísica de la Universidad Internacional de Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) dirigido, por primera vez, a profesorado de educación infantil y primaria que, como en ediciones anteriores, cuenta con la participación del personal investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

A study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and among its authors is a team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).

A world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed astronomers to locate, for the first time, the source of a cosmic neutrino coming from outside the Milky Way. The results, published in the journal Science, are being presented today at a press conference at the Headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.

The Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation and the President of the Government of the Canaries attended the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias which was held today at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna, Tenerife. Among other documents discussed were the Strategic Plan for the Canary Island Observatories, and a study of the socioeconomic impact of the astrophysics sector in the islands.

A study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Ana Monreal Ibero proves the presence of (probably) organic molecules in galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

An international team led by a PhD student from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has identified the emission of tellurium in the infrared spectra of two planetary nebulae and bromine in one of them.