"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons"

- Edwin Hubble –

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News

  • Binary system with two stars about to collide
    The IAC discovers a pair of stars condemned to explode as a supernova only 150 light years away
  • H-alpha image of the partial solar eclipse of 29 March 2025
    The IAC brings the partial solar eclipse of 29 March closer to the public
  • El evento de entrega de becas
    La Fundación “La Caixa” apoya el talento en el IAC con sus becas doctorales y postdoctorales
  • El astrofísico y divulgador Ethan Siegel junto al director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet
    El astrofísico Ethan Siegel resalta la calidad del cielo de Canarias
  • El cartel utilizado para la Hora del Planeta 2025
    The IAC joins the Earth Hour in defence of the environment
  • Image of an area of the Euclid Deep Field South showing several huge galactic clusters, as well as intracluster light and gravitational lensing.
    The IAC contributes to more accurate mapping of the Universe through Euclid data
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Events

  • Upcoming
    Conference
    MUNICHFEST 2025: Celebrating 40 years of research on hot luminous stars
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    2025 ExGal-Twin Regional Workshop en Gestión de Proyectos Europeos
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Employment

  • Indefinite contract
    One Postdoctoral Contract WEAVE-ECOS 2025 (PS-2025-007)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters”. The contract is funded by the project “WEAVE
  • Indefinite contract
    One Postdoctoral Contract AS IAC-NOT 2025 (PS-2025-001)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “ Operación y explotación científica de instalaciones telescópicas para las Instituciones
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