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Statement supporting the selection of La Palma for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) site: The Comité Científico Internacional (CCI) of the Canary Islands Observatories enthusiastically welcomes the possibility that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) may ultimately choose the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) on La Palma as its site. The ORM offers outstanding astronomical conditions, decades of successful international cooperation in operating telescopes, and a robust legal framework protecting its dark skies. At its meeting on 27 November 2025 on the island of La Palma, the CCIAdvertised on -
La ministra ha felicitado al IAC por haber recuperado este año la acreditación como Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa para el periodo 2026-2029, el mayor reconocimiento científico que puede recibir un centro de investigación en España. Morant ha destacado cómo el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce conocimiento científico fundamental en la lucha contra los incendios como los que estos días devastan distintos puntos de España. La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, ha presidido hoy el Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), donde haAdvertised on -
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 structuresAdvertised on