The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) welcomed the visit of Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Professor Queloz's stay at the IAC has focused on instrumental development and technological collaboration. As part of his agenda, he also gave a lecture entitled ‘Exoplanets: the next frontier’ in the IAC Lecture Hall. The researcher visited the IAC to supervise the installation of a new high-stability spectrograph on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma

Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an international scientific team in which research staff from the Instituto de Aastrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) participate. They used the European Very Large Telescope in Chile to monitor the velocity of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The research is published in Nature Astronomy . For the past twenty years, astronomers have known that many massive stars in the metal-rich Milky Way have a

The renowned researcher, invited by the IAC as part of the Fundación Occident Visiting Researchers programme, will analyse the unresolved questions that still surround the origin and evolution of the Universe. On 10 July, at 17:00, the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos will host the public lecture “Cosmology: the nightmare of contemporary Physics?”, delivered by the distinguished astronomer and cosmologist Julio Navarro, Professor at the University of Victoria, in Canada. The event forms part of his stay at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) within the Fundación Occident Visiting