Research carried out with the new WEAVE spectrograph, installed on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma), and in whose construction the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found a mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The study was conducted by a European team led by astronomers at University College London (UCL) and Cardiff University, and includes researchers from the IAC. The cloud of iron atoms, described for the first time in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

La presidenta del Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, ha anunciado esta mañana la aprobación de una subvención de 2,2 millones de euros al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) para la fabricación de DRAGO-3, una cámara de última generación que se integrará en una constelación global de satélites en órbita baja. Esta red de satélites interconectados está concebida para ofrecer servicios globales o regionales para Tenerife. El importe exacto de la subvención asciende a 2.208.120 euros. El anuncio se ha realizado durante una visita a las instalaciones de IACTEC, la división tecnológica del

An international review article in which IAC researcher Jesús Falcón Barroso is a contributor, explains how the study of stellar populations in galaxies outside the Milky Way and the Local Group, using techniques which are called “extragalactic archaeology”, permits the reconstruction of the processes of formation and evolution of those galaxies. This article has been published in the Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics , one of the most prestigious journals in this field, to which only five researchers of the IAC have contributed during the lifetime of the Institute. How did the