Doscientos cincuenta científicos y representantes de destacadas instituciones de investigación de todo el mundo se reúnen este 15 de octubre para visitar las instalaciones de los cuatro Large-Sized Telescopes (LST, por sus siglas en inglés) del Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO, por sus siglas en inglés), en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Palma, con motivo de la puesta en marcha de este nuevo conjunto de telescopios. El director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Valentín Martínez Pillet, destaca que “la

The IACTEC Espacio team, a laboratory within the CELESTE project, took part in the International Astronautical Congress 2026 with developments in instrumentation, software and technologies for small satellites, including DRAGO-3, IACSAT-DUNE, libPUS and the future Constelación Islas Canarias The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) took part in the 77th International Astronautical Congress 2026 (IAC 2026), held from 5 to 9 October in Antalya, Türkiye, where the IACTEC Espacio team, integrated into the CELESTE project, showcased some of the technologies and missions it is developing in

An international team, led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) through the UNDARK project (Unravelling the Dark Universe from the Canary Islands Observatories), funded by the European Union through the Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence programme, has developed a new method to extract information from galaxy maps tracing the large-scale structure of the Universe and to better understand the physics governing the earliest moments of the Universe after the Big Bang. The study is published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" . The current best