News
Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy
There is a force hidden deep inside galaxies: magnetic fields. Invisible to conventional telescopes, they are a factor in galaxy evolution, regulating the...
-
-
NewsMaking the Hubble’s deepest images even deeperIt has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by...
-
NewsMARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
-
NewsMARIO VARGAS LLOSA: “We must bring literature closer to the stars!”The Nobel Laureate for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, accompanied by his partner Isabel Preysler, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
-
NewsMARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...
-
NewsMás de 1.600 personas visitaron el Observatorio del Teide en sus Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas 2017Las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas 2017 del Observatorio del Teide (Izaña, Tenerife), celebradas el pasado viernes 23 y sábado 24 de junio, tuvieron una afluencia...
-
NewsMassive collision in the planetary system Kepler 107Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth to produce the Moon. An...
-
NewsMassive pulsating star provides clues to calibrate stellar evolution modelsAn international collaboration, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), determines with an unprecedented level of precision...
-
NewsMatter that shows when numbers do not work out and other unknownsOverlaps at the Frontiers of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics at the XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics The type of matter we are...