CLAUSURADA LA XIX ESCUELA DE INVIERNO DEL INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS

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  • Iniciativa internacional Equal Day
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    El IAC invita a los centros educativos a unirse al "Equal Day 2026" por la paz y la igualdad
    Por segundo año consecutivo, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en colaboración con el equipo de Coordinadores Nacionales de Educación de la Astronomía (NAEC) en España de la Oficina de Astronomía para la Educación (Unión Astronómica Internacional), se suma a la iniciativa internacional Equal Day. Este evento global, que se celebrará entre el 18 y el 23 de marzo de 2026, utiliza la astronomía como una herramienta para promover la paz, la equidad, la sostenibilidad y la empatía en todo el planeta. Consolidando un éxito internacional Tras una inspiradora primera edición en 2025 que
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  • Electronic board developed by the IAC for the PLATO mission, displayed alongside other technological components in the exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’.
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    The IAC participates in the exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’ on the European space mission PLATO
    The exhibition, opened at the Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha, brings the search for Earth-like planets closer to the public and displays technological components developed by Spanish centres involved in the mission. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in the temporary exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’, a display dedicated to the European space mission PLATO and to one of the major challenges in astrophysics today: the search for and characterisation of habitable Earth-like planets beyond the Solar System. The exhibition, which can be visited until
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  • Giant galaxy M87 combining observations in visible light
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    Grantecan helps reveal how the black hole in the supergiant galaxy M87 shapes its mysterious filaments
    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
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