The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has received a visit from Robert P. Kirshner, Executive Director of the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) . During his stay at the IAC headquarters in La Laguna, he was welcomed by the center’s director, Valentín Martínez Pillet, and by the deputy director, Eva Villaver Sobrino, along with other members of the research institute. During his visit, he was able to learn firsthand about the institution’s scientific and technological capabilities and gave a colloquium titled The Thirty Meter Telescope and Science of the Future
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos de la Universidad de Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña (IEEC), have carried out the largest observational study to date on massive runaway stars including rotation and binarity in the Milky Way. This work, recently published in Astronomy & Astrophysics , sheds light on how these stellar “fugitives” are launched into space and what their properties reveal about their intriguing origins. Runaway stars are stars that travel through
El Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos (MCC) y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ofrece la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre la pregunta ¿De qué está hecho el 95% del Cosmos? La respuesta la dará el profesor Fernando Buitrago Alonso en una charla abierta al público en el MCC, del Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros de Tenerife, el próximo martes 24 de febrero a las 18:00 horas. Como es habitual, la conferencia será libre y gratuita hasta completar aforo. Bajo el título "Euclid: el telescopio Hubble europeo, pero con esteroides", Buitrago explicará por qué, aunque Euclid no sea tan
