The “100 Square Moons” exhibition inaugurated in Tokyo
The Cervantes Institute in Japan plays host to this educational exhibition which brings advances in Astrophysics to society via photographs with major impact...
A team of astronomers has discovered that galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) –hosting continuously growing black holes that emit large amounts of...
Theoretical chemistry as an efficient tool for undestanding astrochemical transformations of fullerenes and related species
Theoretical chemistry as an efficient tool for undestanding astrochemical transformations of fullerenes and related species Prof. Denis Sabirov Institute of...
Tidally trapped pulsations in a close binary star system
It has long been suspected that tidal forces in close binary stars could modify the orientation of the pulsation axis of the constituent stars. Such stars have...
Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
Traces of Galaxy Formation: Stellar populations, Dynamics and Morphology
We are a large, diverse, and very active research group aiming to provide a comprehensive picture for the formation of galaxies in the Universe. Rooted in...
An international scientific collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered two new super-Earths orbiting a...
Un verano más, el IAC abre sus puertas a la formación de profesorado
La sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna, acoge durante esta semana la IV edición del Curso Internacional de Verano...
When the Sun is observed in X-ray or extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, hundreds of bright and compact structures with a rounded shape and sizes similar to that...