The European Patent Office (EPO) has granted the IAC a patent on an invention developed within IACTEC-Space . This technology improves the quality of images obtained by high-performance cameras under the demanding conditions found in space. The effectiveness of this technology has already been tested on three space missions, applying it to the DRAGO (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) cameras, developed at the IAC for Earth observation from space. Carlos Colodro, electronics engineer at IACTEC-Space and the main person responsible for this development, comments that

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, among the tiniest and faintest galaxies known, may hold the key to understanding one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries: the true nature of dark matter. A new study reveals that even a single collision between dark matter particles every 10 billion years — roughly the age of the Universe — is enough to explain the dark matter cores observed in these small systems. These galaxies, which contain only a few thousand stars, are dominated by dark matter and have relatively simple evolutionary histories. That makes them ideal cosmic laboratories for testing theories

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias organiza visitas guiadas y participa en la Feria de las Vocaciones Científicas de Canarias dentro de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores de la Macaronesia El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participará en MacaroNight 2025, la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e investigadoras de la Macaronesia, con dos actividades dirigidas a estudiantes de diferentes niveles educativos para acercar la astrofísica y fomentar las vocaciones científicas entre la juventud canaria. Visitas guiadas a la sede central del IAC Los días 22 y 23 de septiembre, el