"Gracias por enseñarnos a soñar estrellas"

- Prof. Francisco Sánchez 1936-2025 -

Book of condolences

Francisco Sánchez, director fundador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

News

  • Libros finalistas del Premio Cosmos
    El Premio Cosmos anuncia las obras finalistas y refuerza su apuesta por la lectura científica entre la juventud canaria
  • Artistic representation of the Cosmic Brain project, which adapts cosmological analysis techniques to neuroimaging
    From studying the universe to neuroimaging: a cosmology technique allows us to “listen” to the structure of the human brain
  • EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
    EIB Advisory helps develop groundbreaking Thirty Meter Telescope project in La Palma
  • Artistic impression of collisions between dark matter particles. One collision per particle every 10 billion years explains the distribution of dark matter in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies.
    A single collision in 10 billion years could explain how dark matter is distributed within dwarf galaxies
  • GRANCAIN instrument installed on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan)
    GRANCAIN, the first instrument to use the GTC's adaptive optics, is integrated into the telescope
  • SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings
    The IAC hosts scientific meetings on Solar Orbiter's SO/PHI instrument

Employment

  • One FC2 Postdoctoral Contract Head of LIOM 2025 (PS-2025-079)
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE FC2 postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “ Advanced opto-mechanical technologies for telescopes and satellites”
  • Two Postdoctoral Contracts SPEAR 2025 (PS-2025-077)
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for TWO postdoctoral fellowships in Astrophysics to work on the project linked to the line of research “Exoplanets and Astrobiology” in the framework of the