A promising future for the Canary Island Observatories
From 11th to 13th November the conference “Future Instruments for the Telescopes of the Canary Observatories”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
A rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the Sun
The detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
A rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the Sun
The detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
Every year at about this date the Earth in its orbit round the Sun meets up with a stream of particles from the asteroid 3200 Phaeton, which produces the meteor...
A star six times more massive than the Sun influenced the birth of the Solar System
An international team led by Spanish astrophysicists has discovered that the origin of some of the radioactive elements found in the most primitive meteorites...
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) are collaborating in Astrofest La Palma 2018, a big festival of events...
A stellar first showing of the new film by Mateo Gil “The Laws of Thermodynamics”
The première will be in the Gran Telescopio de Canarias, and there will be two special showings, one in the University of La Laguna, and the other in the Museum...
A Stellar Marriage Doomed to End in a Catastrophic Divorce
A study published today in the journal Nature, based on observations with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), shows, for the first time, how a type Ia supernova...
A step forward to solve the mystery of ultra-diffuse galaxies
A study by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), led by researchers Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Trujillo and Johan H. Knapen, reveals that the enigmatic...