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  • News
    Several Neptune-like planets discovered in a theoretically barren region
    The distribution of planets in the over five thousand distant solar systems discovered to date forms a complex puzzle. There is a region in the planetary orbit...
  • Project
    SEVERO OCHOA 2016 - 2019
    The IAC is an internationalized Spanish research centre aiming to achieve major advances in the understanding of the laws that govern the origin and evolution...
  • Conference
    Severo Ochoa school: Exploiting extragalactic surveys in the era of large telescopes
    The formation and evolution of galaxies is one of the most important topics under study in modern astrophysics. The advent of current and future observing...
  • News
    Sextans: the smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until now
    A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has...
  • Publication
    Signatures of sunspot oscillations and the case for chromospheric resonances
    Sunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of...
  • News
    Sixth edition of "Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy" and other initiatives to celebrate the Day of Women and Girls in Science
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is joining in the celebrations for 11 February by taking part in more than a dozen actions aimed at promoting...
  • News
    Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
    A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
  • News
    Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
    Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...
  • Publication
    Solving the Paradox of the Solar Sodium D<SUB>1</SUB> Line Polarization
    Twenty-five years ago, enigmatic linear polarization signals were discovered in the core of the sodium D 1 line. The only explanation that could be found...