Cristina Ramos Almeida, investigadora del Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias (IAC) y coautora de más de un centenar de artículos sobre galaxias y agujeros negros, ha sido una de las homenajeadas en la primera edición de los premios "Mujeres tenían que SER" de Radio Club Tenerife, Cadena SER. El evento, celebrado en la noche del miércoles 29 de octubre, en la sala Adán Martín del edificio de Presidencia del Gobierno en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ha teñido el espacio de reconocimiento al talento femenino en diversos ámbitos. La distinción resalta la crucial contribución de Ramos Almeida a la

The new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has achieved its first scientific results, with four articles published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and one more accepted for publication. The data confirm its ability to detect Earth-like planets in the infrared for the first time with a precision better than one metre per second. One of the papers, led by IAC researcher Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, confirms the presence of a

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the " Multimodal Universe" - a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset that brings together hundreds of millions of astronomical observations in unprecedented detail and scale. This massive collection of space data aims to revolutionize how artificial intelligence can be applied to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos. " The Multimodal Universe makes accessing machine learning-ready astronomical datasets as easy as writing a single line of code," says Helen Qu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Flatiron