From 3 to 23 November, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will bring astronomy to the public in the form of multiple activities, workshops and talks on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el Área STEAM para el Fomento de las Vocaciones Científicas y la Creatividad de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias anuncian el lanzamiento de un ambicioso proyecto de innovación educativa, Ciencia con PETeR: Investigando el Sistema Solar y los exoplanetas con telescopios robóticos. Esta iniciativa, dirigida a centros de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato del archipiélago, convertirá a las aulas canarias en auténticos centros de investigación astronómica durante el
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through its Communication and Scientific Culture Unit (UC3) and in collaboration with the Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC), part of Tenerife Museums, publishes the astronomical events for the year 2026 in its traditional calendar. The year 2026 will be marked by a total solar eclipse on 12 August, which will not be visible from the Canary Islands, but will be 70 per cent partial. In addition, 2026 will see the arrival of new comets, meteor showers and other interesting astronomical events. The IAC's 2026 Calendar is illustrated with a
A team of cosmologists from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has obtained the most accurate census to date of the dark matter halos of the Universe. The work is based on the development of a new model, called GPS+, capable of predicting how many dark matter halos exist at each stage of cosmic history. In the universe, there are enormous invisible structures surrounding galaxies and galaxy clusters. These are dark matter halos, concentrations of matter that do not emit light and cannot be directly observed, but
