An international team, led by a pre-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered with great precision how the Milky Way’s disc became flattened. Using data from the Gaia satellite and thanks to the precise ages derived by the ChronoGal project, the researchers have identified two stages: a very rapid thinning that ended around 10.8 billion years ago, and a much slower process that continues to the present day. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Most of the stars in the Milky Way are distributed across two discs: a thin, young

Doscientos cincuenta científicos y representantes de destacadas instituciones de investigación de todo el mundo se reúnen este 15 de octubre para visitar las instalaciones de los cuatro Large-Sized Telescopes (LST, por sus siglas en inglés) del Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO, por sus siglas en inglés), en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Palma, con motivo de la puesta en marcha de este nuevo conjunto de telescopios. El director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Valentín Martínez Pillet, destaca que “la

An international team, led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) through the UNDARK project (Unravelling the Dark Universe from the Canary Islands Observatories), funded by the European Union through the Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence programme, has developed a new method to extract information from galaxy maps tracing the large-scale structure of the Universe and to better understand the physics governing the earliest moments of the Universe after the Big Bang. The study is published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" . The current best

ESFRI reconoce así la importancia y el avance de este proyecto científico internacional, que se construirá en La Palma, y refuerza su posición ante las próximas fases de desarrollo El Telescopio Solar Europeo (EST) ha sido reconocido como Landmark por el Foro Estratégico Europeo sobre Infraestructuras de Investigación (ESFRI) , tras la decisión adoptada en su 97ª reunión celebrada en Cork los días 23 y 24 de septiembre de 2026. El reconocimiento supone un importante paso para esta infraestructura, incluida desde 2016 en la hoja de ruta de ESFRI, y pone de relieve el avance alcanzado en su

A meeting brought together scientists, technologists and institutional representatives to present the latest developments in the La Palma Quantum Interferometer (LPQI) project, outline its next steps and analyse the potential of quantum technologies to drive science, innovation and sustainable development on La Palma. As part of the La Palma Quantum Interferometer (LPQI) project, scientists, technologists and institutional representatives met from 8 to 10 September at IACTEC in La Laguna (Tenerife) to hold the LPQI Workshop 2026, an event at which the latest advances were presented and the