El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) vuelve a sumarse a la gran cita tecnológica y de entretenimiento de las Islas, TLP Tenerife , que se celebra en el Recinto Ferial de Tenerife del 15 al 19 de julio. Con esta edición, el IAC cumple tres años consecutivos como colaborador oficial de este macroevento organizado por el Cabildo de Tenerife, que espera congregar a unas 50.000 personas con el fin de acercar la ciencia y el desarrollo tecnológico de vanguardia al público joven y fomentar las vocaciones científicas en un entorno dinámico y digital. La principal apuesta del IAC para esta

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

The Plenary Hall of the Palencia City Council hosted the presentation of the program of events surrounding the upcoming eclipse. This ambitious program of educational and artistic events was presented by the mayor of Palencia, Miriam Andrés Prieto; the director of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), Valentín Martínez Pillet; the councilor for Cultural Identity, Tourism, and Festivals, Francisco Fernández Asensio; and the deputy director of the IAC, Eva Villaver, a native of Palencia. In anticipation of the upcoming eclipse on August 12, Palencia will become Spain’s scientific

The renowned researcher, invited by the IAC as part of the Fundación Occident Visiting Researchers programme, will analyse the unresolved questions that still surround the origin and evolution of the Universe. On 10 July, at 17:00, the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos will host the public lecture “Cosmology: the nightmare of contemporary Physics?”, delivered by the distinguished astronomer and cosmologist Julio Navarro, Professor at the University of Victoria, in Canada. The event forms part of his stay at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) within the Fundación Occident Visiting