The Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) is organizing the XXXVI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics , which will be held in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife) from November 17 to 22, 2025. Under the title "Key Optical technologies for Astronomy", the school will focus on cutting-edge optical and algorithmic technologies that will define the future of Astrophysics. This edition, led by Professors Jeff Kuhn (University of Hawaii and IAC) and Rafael Rebolo (IAC), will involve approximately 35 advanced Master's students, doctoral candidates, and early-career postdoctoral
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
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha sido distinguido por la Delegación del Gobierno en Canarias con uno de los reconocimientos entregados durante el acto de conmemoración del 47 aniversario de la Constitución española de 1978, celebrado este 6 de diciembre y presidido por el delegado del Gobierno en Canarias, Anselmo Pestana. La Delegación del Gobierno ha reconocido la labor del IAC, que celebra su 40 aniversario, en virtud del artículo 44.2 de la Constitución Española, por su fundamental contribución a la promoción de la ciencia y la investigación científica y técnica en
