The European Solar Telescope (EST) project has taken a decisive step towards construction with the establishment of the Board of Governmental Representatives (BGR), marking the first formal commitment at the governmental level to this European flagship in solar research. Until now, EST has been driven by a scientific consortium of universities and research institutions across Europe. The creation of the BGR transforms EST into a collaboration among European nations, whose national governments lend political support to the project and to the creation of a future European Solar Telescope

El Lehendakari del Gobierno Vasco, Imanol Pradales Gil, y el presidente del Gobierno de Canarias, Fernando Clavijo Batle, han visitado las instalaciones del Observatorio del Teide del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) donde han sido recibidos por el director del centro, Valentín Martínez Pillet que ha estado acompañado por personal científico y técnico. Esta visita subraya el interés y la apuesta compartida por ambos gobiernos por la excelencia científica y la colaboración en proyectos de alta tecnología como los que abandera el IAC desde Canarias. Con dos de los observatorios más

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