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  • Cartel de la X Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands (AEACI 2024)
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    El IAC celebra 10 años de aventura educativa en astronomía
    Hoy ha comenzado la X Escuela Internacional Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands (AEACI 2024), que se desarrollará durante toda la semana en el edificio de IACTEC, en La Laguna (Tenerife), y a la que asisten 65 docentes de 23 países. Esta formación, organizada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) junto a otras instituciones científicas y educativas, cumple diez ediciones formando a más de 600 docentes de todo el mundo en la enseñanza de la astronomía. Bajo el lema "Explora el universo con nosotros", la AEACI 2024 invita a educadores de todos los niveles y
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  • Poster for the 2024 edition of "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"
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    Sixth edition of "Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy" and other initiatives to celebrate the Day of Women and Girls in Science
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is joining in the celebrations for 11 February by taking part in more than a dozen actions aimed at promoting scientific and technological vocations among girls and young women and making the role of women in the development of science more visible. The report " Radiography of the gender gap in STEAM education" published in 2022 by the Equality Unit of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training shows that in some key disciplines for the future and, in particular, those related to Astronomy and Astrophysics, progress is not being made
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  • Cartel de la charla. Crédito: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA3.0 IGO
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    Public talk: The Milky Way and its impacts with other galaxies
    Tomorow, 10th November, at 18:00 the Museum of Science and the Cosmos will offer, free, a lectura with the title “The Milky Way and its encounters with other galaxies. It will be given in Spanish by Teresa Antoja, an astrophysicist and Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Science of the Cosmos in the University of Barcelona (ICCUB). The field of encounters between galaxies has been growing in importance in recent years. The European Space Agency (ESA), launched the Gaia mission some years ago, and this has provided a large amount of new information in the form of data which have
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    The Infrared: beyond the rainbow
    From today the new edition of the monographic magazine Paralajes, produced and edited by the IAC, is available in both digital and paper formats. This volume is on the theme of astronomy in the infrared, radiation outside the range visible to the human eye, very important in the history of the IAC, described in detail in over 170 pages. A major fraction of the energy emitted within the universe is in the infrared, but we cannot detect it except using instruments specially developed to do this. The IAC has been aware of this since its beginning, and has been developing infrared instruments
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  • Poster AEACI 2023
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    The IX International Summer School for teachers at the IAC will be focused on the study of "Other Worlds"
    The "Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands 2023" will take place in Tenerife from 17 to 21 July and will mainly focus on research on the Solar System and extrasolar planets, highlighting the work carried out at the IAC and the Observatories of the Canary Islands. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), together with other scientific and educational institutions, is organising the ninth edition of the "Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands" (AEACI). Under the title "Other Worlds", the latest discoveries and advances in research on extrasolar planets, the
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  • Imagen del proyecto "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"
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    Education and social awareness activities to promote the participation of women and girls in Science
    Some 40 women astronomers, engineers and technologists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from IACTEC and from other collaborating institutions are taking part in around ten initiatives to raise awareness of the important contribution of women in Science and to stimulate the interest of girls in scientific and technological careers. The activities are part of the celebrations of 11F, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and they will extend from February till June. Even though the percentage of women in scientific and technical careers has grown in recent
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