El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma a la conmemoración del Día Internacional de las Mujeres y las Niñas en la Ciencia con un amplio programa de actividades orientadas a visibilizar el papel de las mujeres en la astronomía y fomentar el interés por la ciencia y la tecnología entre las nuevas generaciones. Entre las acciones más destacadas se encuentra la Editatona 11F, organizada junto a Wikimedia España. La iniciativa se articula en dos jornadas complementarias: un wikitaller práctico de introducción a la edición en Wikipedia, en el que las personas participantes aprenden

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

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