Tim Bedding is an excellent observer of oscillations in solar-type stars and red giants. Among his achievements may be counted certain very interesting and...
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NewsTim Bedding: “The space missions only have access to a limited fraction of the sky and cannot observe very bright stars”
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NewsTOM LOREDO: “With Bayesian statistics we can determine the uncertainty of reality”
This scientist from the University of Cornell is lecturing at the XXVI Winter School of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canaries
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NewsTomaso Belloni: “X-rays, which are generated only in presence of very high energies, led to the discovery of the most extreme objects existing both inside and outside our galaxy”
Tomaso Belloni was a six-year-old kid who wanted to become an astronomer. He succeeded. He graduated in Physics at the Università di Milano (Italy) and then he...
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NewsVALENTÍN MARTÍNEZ PILLET: "The DKIST and EST telescopes will contribute to predict solar magnetic storms"
During his last visit to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) we talked to the Director of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) of the United States...
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NewsVik Dhillon: “HTRA is the study of how astronomical objects vary on fast timescales, where fast means milliseconds to seconds”
Vik Dhillon is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He took an undergraduate degree in Physics with Astronomy and a...
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NewsVYACHESLAV LUKIN: “Solar observations without theoretical and computational models are like a car without wheels”
Disclaimer footnote: Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily...
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NewsWERNER HOFFMAN: “Tenemos que investigar en los mejores lugares, como Canarias, para progresar, no solo en Ciencia y en Tecnología, sino como sociedad”
Esta semana se está celebrando en La Palma la reunión del consorcio CTA que tendrá, en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), su base...
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NewsYAKIV PAVLENKO: “OSIRIS is a very useful instrument for the investigation of low mass late-type hosting stars and exoplanets which cannot be observed directly”
As a "theoretical scientist", Yakiv Pavlenko develops models to interpret and explain qualitatively and quantitatively observed phenomenahea. Physics graduated...
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NewsYUN WANG: "Dark energy will determine the final destiny of the Universe"
Yun Wang, cosmologist, poet and invited to the international scientific “Cosmology School in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...