Next Monday, November 11th, it will be possible to follow the transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun from the Canary Island Observatories...
Discovered a new family of red giant stars with an unusual chemical composition in the Milky Way
The results of this research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters and in which the IAC participated, suggest an extragalactic origin and will help to...
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Its discovery, at 11.4 billion light-years, was possible thanks to the increase of the galaxy apparent brightness produced by the zoom effect of another galaxy...
Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of...
Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma
The Teatro Circo de Marte of this municipality of Palma will host a public talk on Wednesday about the new possibilities offered by the Cherenkov Telescope...
Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...
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Dos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luz
Nuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...
Initiation of the European project EELabs. The recent visit of the Mayor of Gúímar to the Teide Observatory sees the start of the Energy Efficiency Laboratories...