Research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has used an innovative technique based on artificial intelligence to study how stars form in galaxies. By analysing 10 000 nearby galaxies, the team have discovered that most stars are born within their own galaxy. Galactic mergers, while important, are not the main source of new stars. Furthermore, the study reveals that more massive galaxies are more affected by these mergers. These results, published in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the complex history of galaxies and their evolution over time. Most galaxies do not

The Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) is promoting knowledge about European project management with a dedicated forum taking place on April 23 and 24 at the IACTEC headquarters in Tenerife. The 2025 ExGal-Twin Regional Workshop on European Project Management is an event organized by the ExGal-Twin project and the Office of Transfer and Institutional Actions (OTAI) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), under the title "Innovation in European Project Management: Challenges and Opportunities" . The main objective of this workshop is to bring together R&D&I entities

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the " Multimodal Universe" - a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset that brings together hundreds of millions of astronomical observations in unprecedented detail and scale. This massive collection of space data aims to revolutionize how artificial intelligence can be applied to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos. " The Multimodal Universe makes accessing machine learning-ready astronomical datasets as easy as writing a single line of code," says Helen Qu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Flatiron