"Gracias por enseñarnos a soñar estrellas"

- Prof. Francisco Sánchez 1936-2025 -

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Francisco Sánchez, director fundador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

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  • Imagen RGB de la Nebulosa del Anillo obtenida con WEAVE/LIFU
    The William Herschel telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory discovers a mysterious iron “bar” in the Ring Nebula
  • Image of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), captured on 23 October from the Teide Observatory / Daniel López and Alfred Rosenberg (IAC)
    A solar eclipse and the arrival of a comet will mark the 2026 astronomical calendar
  • Artist’s illustration of the V1298 Tau planetary system / Astrobiology Center, NINS.
    Astronomers find missing link to Galaxy's most common planets
  • Galaxia gigante M87 combinando observaciones en luz visible
    Grantecan helps reveal how the black hole in the supergiant galaxy M87 shapes its mysterious filaments
  • Comparison between an observed galaxy (right) and a simulated galaxy (left) showing similarities in mass and size.
    IAC researchers develop accurate method to measure dark matter haloes using galaxy sizes
  • In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA/Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
    Astronomers catch unprecedented features at brink of active black hole
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