An international team of researchers, including researchers from the IAC, have studied in detail a remarkable couple of dwarf galaxies “dancing with each other” inside an unpopulated area of the Universe. This uncommon pair of low-mass galaxies merging “in the middle of nowhere”, near the center of a cosmic void, offers a unique view of one-on-one interactions and of the evolution of galaxies located in very low density environments. Researchers from the Calar Alto Void Integral-field Treasury surveY (CAVITY) project, led by the University of Granada, have discovered a rare and ongoing

The European Patent Office (EPO) has granted the IAC a patent on an invention developed within IACTEC-Space . This technology improves the quality of images obtained by high-performance cameras under the demanding conditions found in space. The effectiveness of this technology has already been tested on three space missions, applying it to the DRAGO (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) cameras, developed at the IAC for Earth observation from space. Carlos Colodro, electronics engineer at IACTEC-Space and the main person responsible for this development, comments that

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias organiza visitas guiadas y participa en la Feria de las Vocaciones Científicas de Canarias dentro de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores de la Macaronesia El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participará en MacaroNight 2025, la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e investigadoras de la Macaronesia, con dos actividades dirigidas a estudiantes de diferentes niveles educativos para acercar la astrofísica y fomentar las vocaciones científicas entre la juventud canaria. Visitas guiadas a la sede central del IAC Los días 22 y 23 de septiembre, el