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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been honoured with the Canary Islands Diamond Award in the category of Business and Economic Innovation, a distinction granted by Canal 4 Tenerife as part of the first edition of these awards on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The recognition is bestowed “in acknowledgement of its scientific excellence and its international projection from the Canary Islands” and highlights the IAC’s contribution to the development of a knowledge-based economy in the Archipelago. The IAC was selected as the winner following a jury evaluation processAdvertised on -
An international team, led by a pre-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered with great precision how the Milky Way’s disc became flattened. Using data from the Gaia satellite and thanks to the precise ages derived by the ChronoGal project, the researchers have identified two stages: a very rapid thinning that ended around 10.8 billion years ago, and a much slower process that continues to the present day. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Most of the stars in the Milky Way are distributed across two discs: a thin, youngAdvertised on -
Más de 50 estudiantes y docentes procedentes de ocho centros educativos de toda Canarias participaron este miércoles, 20 de mayo, en el I Congreso Científico Alisio-PETeR, un evento que pone el broche de oro a los proyectos de innovación educativa “ALISIO - Centros educativos desde el espacio” y “Ciencia con PETeR: Investigando el Sistema Solar y los exoplanetas con telescopios robóticos” desarrollados durante este curso escolar. El congreso se celebró en las instalaciones de IACTEC, en el Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Tenerife, y ha sido organizado por el Instituto de Astrofísica deAdvertised on