La Palma acoge durante tres días DiploInnova, un programa de Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias organizado con la colaboración del IAC El presidente de Canarias, Fernando Clavijo, resaltó, esta mañana en el Roque de los Muchachos, en La Palma, el papel de Canarias en la resolución de los desafíos del planeta a través de la ciencia en la inauguración del programa DiploInnova , una jornada de diplomacia científica que busca posicionar a las islas en el ámbito internacional, dedicada en esta ocasión a la Astrofísica y el Espacio. Para Clavijo, la colaboración internacional en el ámbito

ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defense performed a flyby of Mars, as part of its gravitational assistance manoeuvre to shorten its journey to the binary asteroid system Didymos. During the flyby, the spacecraft came around 5000 km from the surface of Mars, having also the opportunity to obtain images of its two moons, Deimos (during the approach) and Phobos (when departing Mars). Julia de León, Javier Licandro, and George Prodan, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, participate in this mission, successfully launched from Cape Cañaveral, Florida (USA) on October 7, 2024

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 Palma