El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma a la conmemoración del Día Internacional de las Mujeres y las Niñas en la Ciencia con un amplio programa de actividades orientadas a visibilizar el papel de las mujeres en la astronomía y fomentar el interés por la ciencia y la tecnología entre las nuevas generaciones. Entre las acciones más destacadas se encuentra la Editatona 11F, organizada junto a Wikimedia España. La iniciativa se articula en dos jornadas complementarias: un wikitaller práctico de introducción a la edición en Wikipedia, en el que las personas participantes aprenden

On August 12, coinciding with the total solar eclipse that will be visible across much of Spain, the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC)—a world leader in solar physics—will bring together leading scientists in Palencia. Most of them are affiliated with the NATE project, spearheaded by the institute, and they will conduct their work in front of the public in what is set to become one of the most significant scientific and educational events to take place in the country. Thus, starting on the 10th, talks and workshops will be held at various locations throughout the city of

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, among the tiniest and faintest galaxies known, may hold the key to understanding one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries: the true nature of dark matter. A new study reveals that even a single collision between dark matter particles every 10 billion years — roughly the age of the Universe — is enough to explain the dark matter cores observed in these small systems. These galaxies, which contain only a few thousand stars, are dominated by dark matter and have relatively simple evolutionary histories. That makes them ideal cosmic laboratories for testing theories