Left panel: map of the surface brightness of "the Antennae" in emission from ionized hydrogen. The brightest zones are the zones occupied by clusters of massive stars. Right panel: map of the expansion velocity of the bubbles detected in the Antennae, pus
The IACTEC building, in the Las Mantecas Science and Technology Park in La Laguna, is hosting the 11th International Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands (AEACI 2026) this week. This edition forms part of the Erasmus+ Astro-Journeys project, co-funded by the European Union, in which the IAC is participating alongside eight other institutions from France, Portugal, Germany and Greece. The aim of the project is to support the professional development of teachers, enabling them to design interdisciplinary, inclusive and research-based learning experiences, using astronomy as the
La sede del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias acoge la reunión anual del proyecto CLUES, una iniciativa que utiliza simulaciones cosmológicas avanzadas para estudiar la formación y evolución de las estructuras del Universo cercano. La sede del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna (Tenerife), acoge entre los días 22 y 26 de junio la reunión científica anual del proyecto internacional CLUES ( Constrained Local UniversE Simulations ), una colaboración que reúne a especialistas en cosmología, simulaciones numéricas y formación de galaxias con el objetivo de reconstruir la
Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an international scientific team in which research staff from the Instituto de Aastrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) participate. They used the European Very Large Telescope in Chile to monitor the velocity of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The research is published in Nature Astronomy . For the past twenty years, astronomers have known that many massive stars in the metal-rich Milky Way have a
