El Lehendakari del Gobierno Vasco, Imanol Pradales Gil, y el presidente del Gobierno de Canarias, Fernando Clavijo Batle, han visitado las instalaciones del Observatorio del Teide del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) donde han sido recibidos por el director del centro, Valentín Martínez Pillet que ha estado acompañado por personal científico y técnico. Esta visita subraya el interés y la apuesta compartida por ambos gobiernos por la excelencia científica y la colaboración en proyectos de alta tecnología como los que abandera el IAC desde Canarias. Con dos de los observatorios más

An international scientific team, including members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has launched an ambitious program to map exoplanets located around the Neptunian Desert —a region around stars where planets the size of Neptune are very rare— in order to better understand the mechanisms of planetary system evolution and formation. This scientific expedition has delivered its first results with the observation of the TOI-421 planetary system. Analysis of this system reveals a surprisingly inclined orbital architecture, offering new insights into the chaotic history of

At the present time ground-based observatories have a wide range of instruments which can study the solar surface in the visible and infrared ranges. But it is not possible to combine these observations with those in the near ultraviolet, which cover the wavelength range from 200 to 400 nanometres, nor to maintain them for long periods due to the turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere. In this context, the Sunrise III mission, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, “ has become the first observatory to obtain spectropolarimetric data simultaneously in the