The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been honoured with the Canary Islands Diamond Award in the category of Business and Economic Innovation, a distinction granted by Canal 4 Tenerife as part of the first edition of these awards on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The recognition is bestowed “in acknowledgement of its scientific excellence and its international projection from the Canary Islands” and highlights the IAC’s contribution to the development of a knowledge-based economy in the Archipelago. The IAC was selected as the winner following a jury evaluation process
El programa de divulgación científica del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) en La Radio de Canarias, " Soñando Estrellas" , emitirá su próximo episodio este viernes, 5 de diciembre, a las 22:30 horas, y posteriormente estará disponible en plataformas digitales . E l espacio, de 30 minutos de duración aproximada , y está dirigido y presentado por Verónica Martín . En este episodio, la investigadora del IAC y de la Universidad de La Laguna , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres Rodríguez , hablará de qué tienen en común nuestra galaxia, la Vía Láctea, con sus galaxias ‘primas’ similares a ella
An international team, with participation from the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery. The study, called ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) , is based on a series of 10 articles published simultaneously in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and was carried out using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) . Thanks to this work, the sharpest images ever of 24 debris disks, the dusty belts left