El IAC colabora por segundo año consecutivo con el festival de música y tendencias de Puerto de la Cruz con actividades gratuitas que permitirán a los asistentes descubrir el Observatorio del Teide y observar el Sol con telescopios especializados. El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma nuevamente al Phe Festival , que celebra su décimo aniversario los días 5 y 6 de septiembre en Puerto de la Cruz, con un programa de actividades destinadas a acercar la Astronomía y la investigación científica al público general. La iniciativa forma parte de IAC POP, la estrategia de divulgación

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, has discovered a transiting giant planet orbiting the smallest known star to host such a companion — a finding that defies current theories of planet formation. The host star, TOI-6894 , is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun , typical of the most common stars in our galaxy. Until now, such low-mass stars were not thought capable of forming or retaining giant planets. But as published today in

The PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) space mission, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), has recently completed one of the most delicate phases of its development: the integration of its main components, the 26 scientific cameras and the service module that houses all the instrument's acquisition, processing, and control electronics. This stage, carried out at the facilities of the aerospace company OHB in Germany, marks a fundamental step toward the launch scheduled for December 2026 from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. “Almost eight years after ESA gave the