Students of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017
A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...
Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...
Summer School on "Eclipsing binaries and asteroseismology" held in La Palma
Fifteen students from nine different countries attended a meeting from September 26th to 30th to learn about the measurement of the fundamental properties of...
Their detection in the interacting galaxies, the “Antennae”, was possible thanks to a new method –BUBBLY- developed by IAC researchers and the GHaFaS instrument...
Supermassive black holes change the central regions of galaxies
Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has led research which used data from the ALMA telescope in Chile to...
Takaaki Kajita: “The detection of gamma-rays with the CTA will be the key to discovering new sources of neutrino emission”
The Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita is one of the leading world experts in neutrino physics. These particles have a very tiny mass, and they hardly interact...
Teachers from five countries embark on a new astronomical adventure in the Canaries
The V International Summer Course “Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and designed to train...