El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), a través de su departamento IACTEC-Espacio, celebra hoy la System Requirements Review (SRR) de la misión IACSAT-1, un hito clave que marca la finalización de la fase B1 del proyecto y consolida todos los requisitos técnicos, científicos y programáticos necesarios para avanzar hacia el diseño preliminar del satélite. IACSAT-1 es la primera misión liderada íntegramente por el IAC dedicada a la observación astronómica desde el espacio. Se trata de un proyecto desarrollado por IACTEC-Espacio, con un equipo científico dirigido por el Prof. Rafael
A team of astronomers led by ICE-CSIC analyzed for the first time a long radio-observation of a scallop-shell star in a pioneer study. The team observed the star using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located in Pune (India), and related it to the photometric information from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Las Cumbres Global Telescope Observatory. Scallop-shell stars are a recently discovered class of young M dwarfs. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are M dwarfs, although there are only around 50 recently confirmed scallop-shell stars. They show
The EU-funded EDUCADO project (Exploring the Deep Universe by Computational Analysis of Data from Observations) at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is organising a two-night astronomical observation school providing hands-on research training for early-stage researchers in astronomy and computer science. The program will convene 15 doctoral candidates from across Europe for an immersive, interdisciplinary learning experience. Attendees will engage in night time astronomical observations utilizing state-of-the-art telescopic instrumentation, guided data analysis workshops, and