This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • Participants at the 2nd ExGal-Twin Regional Meeting
    The event also hosted the first annual meeting of the CIARMA network, which was established as a result of the project’s activities with European project managers from the Canary Islands. The headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna hosted yesterday the 2nd Regional Meeting of ExGal-Twin, a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the IAC. The meeting was entitled “Innovation in project management in the Canary Islands (II): Artificial Intelligence and New Trends” and brought together professionals in European project management from across the archipelago. It
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  • Workshop MIAPbP26-BRAHMs
    Cerca de 80 investigadores de Europa, América, Asia y Australia han participado durante cuatro semanas en un workshop internacional organizado, entre otros, por el investigador del IAC Sergio Simón-Díaz El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha liderado la organización de un encuentro internacional que ha reunido en el Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP), en Garching (Alemania), a cerca de 80 investigadores para avanzar en el conocimiento de las estrellas masivas, desde su formación hasta su evolución y muerte. El workshop se celebró del 10 de agosto al 4 de
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  • Momento de la celebración del 30º aniversario del TNG en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
    Tres jornadas, del 22 al 24 de septiembre, para celebrar la historia del TNG y mirar hacia el futuro de la astronomía Treinta años de investigación astronómica, innovación tecnológica, formación y colaboración internacional. El Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) celebra estos días el 30º aniversario de su inauguración con tres jornadas de actividades que se desarrollan del 22 al 24 de septiembre de 2026 en La Palma. El encuentro, titulado “Thirty Years of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - Celebrating Past, Present and Future of the Largest Italian Optical Telescope”, reúne a astrónomos
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  • Miguel R. Alarcon, principal investigator at AsteroiDB, at a conference in Hangzhou, China.
    The Planetary Society , the largest independent organization dedicated to space exploration—founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman— has announced the award of its STEP (Science and Technology Empowered by the Public) Grants , a competitive program that funds innovative projects in science, technology, planetary defense, and the search for life. Among the three selected projects is AsteroiDB, an open platform for collecting, sharing, and analyzing photometric observations of asteroids. The project is led by Miguel R. Alarcón, Director of Scientific Operations at Light
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  • “UNDARK 2026: Illuminating Cosmic Discord” TEAM
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through the European UNDARK project and together with CERN, has brought together international experts in cosmology, astrophysics and theoretical physics to analyse some of the discrepancies that are challenging our current understanding of the Universe. The aim is to determine whether they arise from effects in the observations that are not yet fully understood, or whether they conceal unknown physical phenomena still waiting to be discovered. We know more about the Universe than at any other time in history, and we can measure some of its
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  • Artist’s impression of an exoplanet in a retrograde orbit
    Thanks to the NIRPS infrared spectrograph, built with the involvement of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , an international team led by the University of Geneva has been able to identify the unique orbit of the exoplanet GJ 3090 b. An international team, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has determined the orbital configuration of the exoplanet GJ 3090 b using the NIRPS spectrograph, built with the participation of the IAC and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory (ESO
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