The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), located on La Palma, has reached another important milestone with the installation of the camera of the LST-4, one of the four Large-Sized Telescopes (LST), which will be part of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), currently under construction. The installation of the camera represents the completion of the telescope assembly and marks its transition to the commissioning phase. After a thorough performance evaluation at the IACTEC building, the IAC's technological and business

La reconocida astrofísica Jocelyn Bell ha sido reconocida con la quinta estrella del Paseo de la Ciencia de Santa Cruz de La Palma, reconociendo su labor en defensa de la igualdad y los descubrimientos realizados. Un reconocimiento que ha sido simbólicamente entregado por el presidente del Cabildo de La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez, en un acto en el que ha participado la subdirectora del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Eva Villaver y el director del Festival Starmus, Garik Israelian. La subdirectora del IAC agradeció a Bell el trabajo científico realizado en toda su carrera y

This week, CTAO Managing Director, Stuart McMuldroch, and Construction Programme Manager, Volker Heinz, traveled to the Canary Islands for a productive visit with the hosting partners at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and colleagues from the CTAO Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration. The team was warmly welcomed at the IAC Headquarters in Tenerife by IAC Director, Valentín Martínez, marking the first official meeting between the two directors since Valentín recently assumed this role. Hosted by Ramón García López, Principal Investigator of the CTAO group at the IAC, the