"Gracias por enseñarnos a soñar estrellas"

- Prof. Francisco Sánchez 1936-2025 -

Book of condolences

Francisco Sánchez, director fundador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

News

  • Libros finalistas del Premio Cosmos
    El Premio Cosmos anuncia las obras finalistas y refuerza su apuesta por la lectura científica entre la juventud canaria
  • Artistic representation of the Cosmic Brain project, which adapts cosmological analysis techniques to neuroimaging
    From studying the universe to neuroimaging: a cosmology technique allows us to “listen” to the structure of the human brain
  • EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
    EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
  • Artistic impression of collisions between dark matter particles. One collision per particle every 10 billion years explains the distribution of dark matter in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies.
    A single collision in 10 billion years could explain how dark matter is distributed within dwarf galaxies
  • GRANCAIN instrument installed on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan)
    GRANCAIN, the first instrument to use the GTC's adaptive optics, is integrated into the telescope
  • SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings
    The IAC hosts scientific meetings on Solar Orbiter's SO/PHI instrument

Employment

  • One Postdoctoral Contract FC2 Galactic Archaeology with OUTLIERS 2025 (PS-2025-093)
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE FC2 postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Chemical Abundances in stars” in the framework of the European Research
  • One Postdoctoral Contract SPEAR 2025B (PS-2025-088)
    The IAC (Tenerife) ) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral fellowship in Astrophysics to work on the project linked to the line of research “Exoplanets and Astrobiology” in the framework of the