Los ponentes de las acciones formativas, Nayra Rodríguez Eugenio (arriba) y Alfred Rosenberg (abajo), durante charlas y talleres impartidos en cursos de formación de profesorado previos. Crédito: IAC.
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) sigue afianzando su capacidad de atracción de talento científico internacional a través del programa “Investigadores Visitantes” en colaboración con Fundación Occident. Al cierre de este año 2025, el programa Investigadores Visitantes Fundación Occident no solo celebra más de diez años de trayectoria ininterrumpida, sino que anuncia la renovación del convenio de colaboración entre ambas entidades hasta el año 2028. Esta prórroga garantiza que el IAC continúe recibiendo anualmente a personal científico de primer nivel mundial, consolidando un
An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed and completed view yet of the mysterious filaments surrounding the giant galaxy M87. Using new observations from the Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the study reveals how these long, thread-like structures move, evolve, and interact with their galactic environment and the activity of the central supermassive black hole. These findings have just been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. M87: a giant galaxy and its mysterious threads M87, located about 55 million
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the death of its founding director, Professor Francisco Sánchez Martínez, whose determination led to the creation of one of Europe's leading research centres and two of the world's finest astrophysical observatories: the Teide Observatory in Tenerife and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. He passed away today in Madrid, where he had been living for the last few years, at the age of 89. The director of the IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, emphasises that "Professor Sánchez's legacy is incalculable. He was a man who paved
