Last week, the founder of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, one of whose telescopes is at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife), paid a visit to the Headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna, and to the Canary Island Observatories, on the heights of Tenerife and La Palma.

Con motivo de la celebración del Día de Europa, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma al reto #Ode2Joy, que promueve la organización Europa Nostra, con el vídeo “Oda astrofísica”, en el que ha participado personal de este centro de investigación.

The Catholic University of Louvain, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, leads the first Asteroseismological study of high mass stars, using NASA telescopes.

Last Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) in which researchers from the Solar System group at the IAC are participating.

The OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) has discovered, on the spiral galaxy Messier 106, a system of globular clusters whose unusual distribution and motion, wich could be a relic from the the “cosmic noon”.

200 nights of observation were needed, from both northern and southern hemispheres, to complete the biggest panorama of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. This IAC project, funded by the FECYT, has obtained the biggest panoramic image ever taken of our Galaxy without the use of professional telescopes.