An international study led by Almudena Prieto, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found places where new stars are forming, as faint star clusters, around the centre of an evolved galaxy. This is the first time that young populations of stars have been picked out and dated in this type of galaxies dominated by very old stars, which can be called “rejuvenated old galaxies”. The research has combined observations from various telescopes, both ground based and space based, and has used innovative techniques of data analysis. The results are published in the

This January, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is hosting, for the third time, the ‘ MIT Astronomy Field Camp’, the historic scientific camp that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers to its students of planetary sciences and astronomy with the aim of providing them with the real experience of working in a professional observatory. On this occasion, nine students have been at the Teide Observatory, in Tenerife, since 7th January, where they have carried out various astronomical observations. Dr. Michael Person has been the coordinator of this activity that began in

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) sigue afianzando su liderazgo investigador y de atracción de talento científico con el programa “ Investigadores Visitantes” de Fundación Occident. En este recién terminado año 2024, el programa cumple una década ininterrumpida de trabajo atrayendo a decenas de personas investigadoras cada año que han realizado estancias, de mínimo un mes y hasta tres meses, en el IAC. El programa permite que el personal investigador invitado comparta espacio y trabajo con miembros de los distintos grupos de investigación establecidos en el IAC, de forma que el