I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night

Sarah Williams

Milky way

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  • Valentín Martínez Pillet, Director of the IAC, speaks during the opening of the course on astrophysics and the space sector held at IACTEC.
    The IAC and the ULL promote a summer course on astrophysics and the space sector in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Eduardo L. Martín Guerrero de Escalante en el exterior de la sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
    The IAC obtains an ERC grant to apply artificial intelligence to the study of substellar objects
  • Poster for the talk “Cosmology: the nightmare of contemporary Physics?”, featuring an image of Julio Navarro against a background of galaxies and event information: Friday 10 July, 17:00, Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos.
    Cosmologist Julio Navarro to give a public talk on the major challenges of modern Physics
  • IAC Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias EAS2026
    The IAC presents its latest scientific advances at Europe’s leading astronomy meeting
  • Ocean of Stars: The faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way
    The IAC is taking part in the launch of the largest dynamic mapping project of the Universe
  • Stacked GTC OSIRIS+ image of And XXXVI. And XXVI is clearly evident in-between two bright foreground stars. In the inset we show a negative colour zoom-in on And XXVI.
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias has contributed to the discovery of one of the faintest dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda
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