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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has received a visit from Robert P. Kirshner, Executive Director of the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) . During his stay at the IAC headquarters in La Laguna, he was welcomed by the center’s director, Valentín Martínez Pillet, and by the deputy director, Eva Villaver Sobrino, along with other members of the research institute. During his visit, he was able to learn firsthand about the institution’s scientific and technological capabilities and gave a colloquium titled The Thirty Meter Telescope and Science of the FutureAdvertised on -
Por segundo año consecutivo, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en colaboración con el equipo de Coordinadores Nacionales de Educación de la Astronomía (NAEC) en España de la Oficina de Astronomía para la Educación (Unión Astronómica Internacional), se suma a la iniciativa internacional Equal Day. Este evento global, que se celebrará entre el 18 y el 23 de marzo de 2026, utiliza la astronomía como una herramienta para promover la paz, la equidad, la sostenibilidad y la empatía en todo el planeta. Consolidando un éxito internacional Tras una inspiradora primera edición en 2025 queAdvertised on -
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) welcomed the visit of Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Professor Queloz's stay at the IAC has focused on instrumental development and technological collaboration. As part of his agenda, he also gave a lecture entitled ‘Exoplanets: the next frontier’ in the IAC Lecture Hall. The researcher visited the IAC to supervise the installation of a new high-stability spectrograph on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La PalmaAdvertised on