The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is once again participating in the Miniferias de la Ciencia y la Innovación en Canarias, reinforcing its commitment to popularising science and bringing astronomy closer to the Canarian public. Through its Scientific Communication and Culture Unit (UC3), the research centre is taking part in the activities organised in La Palma from 22 to 24 May. Become astro-detectives for a day Astrophysicists and popularisers Alfred Rosenberg and Alejandra Goded lead the activity ‘Astro-detectives: How do astrophysicists study the Universe?’, an interactive

The four large sized telescopes of the CTAO on La Palma reach a key milestone in their construction The LST-2 telescope has successfully completed the installation of its camera support structure (CSS), making it the last of the four Large Sized Telescopes ( LST ) to reach this important milestone in its construction at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) on La Palma. This telescope is part of the ambitious CTAO ( Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory ) project, which will create the world's largest network of telescopes for the detection

La casa de control de los telescopios MAGIC , en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), en La Palma, luce desde hoy una nueva imagen, la del “Enano Estelar”, en homenaje a una de las figuras más queridas de las Fiestas Lustrales de la Bajada de la Virgen de las Nieves . La intervención artística, promovida por la colaboración científica MAGIC, ha sido presentada en un acto institucional que ha reunido a autoridades locales, representantes del mundo científico y medios de comunicación. La transformación del edificio —cuya singular cubierta, obra del arquitecto José Luis Porta