News
The natural brightness of the night sky
A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
-
-
NewsThe new TST telescope at the Teide Observatory celebrates its First LightThe robotic Transient Survey Telescope (TST) installed in the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully started its...
-
NewsThe Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide ObservatoryThe Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
-
NewsThe only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzedThe study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply...
-
NewsThe origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identifiedAn international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC...
-
NewsThe OTPC: thirty years working to protect the skyThe Technical Office for the Protection of Sky Quality (OTPC, its Spanish initials) has become a model copied by other Spanish autonomous regional communities...
-
NewsThe Perseids 2017The European project STARS4ALL and sky-live.tv will show live the Perseid meteor shower from the Teide Observatory and the Montsec Astronomical Park. The...
-
NewsThe preparatory phase for the final design of the European Solar Telescope beginsThe EST (European Solar Telescope) project, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to construct the largest solar telescope in Europe in the...
-
NewsThe present and future of research with the GTCDuring the last three days over 60 talks have been given, presenting the latest scientific results obtained using data from the Gran Telescopio Canarias, as...