The new IATec building is inaugurated in La Laguna
A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
The new TST telescope at the Teide Observatory celebrates its First Light
The robotic Transient Survey Telescope (TST) installed in the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully started its...
The nights of August 11th to 12th and 12th to 13th will be the best time to observe this meteor showerPerseids 2016
As happens every year, the Perseids –also known popularly in Spain as “St Lawrence's tears”– show their peak of activity in mid-August. This year the activity...
The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory
The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
The Nobel Laureate in Physics Klaus von Klitzing visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Teide ObservatoryPHOTONEWS
Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics, visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in La Laguna, and Teide Observatory on Monday...
The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened
The Gran Telescopio Canarias or GRANTECAN has surpassed, for the first time, the 10,000 face-to-face visits. The forecast is that by the end of the year there...
The Obra Social "la Caixa" and the CajaCanarias Foundation award doctoral studentships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
These banking foundations will contribute the sum of €454,000 to fund four doctoral studentships of 4 years duration in two consecutive announcements. The...
The online training by PETeR reaches 180 teachers from all over Spain
This project of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias allows the educational community in Spain to carry out their own research on the universe using...