The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) celebrates the appointment of its researcher Rafael Rebolo López, Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), as a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain (RAC), one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious scientific institutions. The election, unanimously agreed upon by the Academy’s plenary session in March, represents recognition of Rebolo’s extensive and distinguished scientific career, as well as his contribution to the development of modern astrophysics from Spain and
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
The international BEARD project, led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has used data from several telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and computer simulations to explain how galaxies similar to the Milky Way have managed to survive the most violent stages of the history of the Universe. The present model for the evolution of the universe predicts an epoch dominated by important mergers of galaxies some ten thousand million years ago. “It’s a case of violent interactions, in which it is foreseeable that weak structures
