The observation, carried out with the DRAGO-2 infrared camera, demonstrates the capability of technology developed by the IAC in the Canary Islands to detect and monitor hydrocarbon spills in the ocean The ALISIO-1 satellite, the first space mission of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has captured an oil slick associated with the tanker Caroline Bezengi, which is grounded near the Omani island of Al Qibiliya, in the Al Hallaniyat archipelago, in the Arabian Sea. The image, obtained on 22 September with the DRAGO-2 infrared camera, makes it possible to distinguish the extent of

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

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

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