Scope: Science and Technology

  • Publishing
    Special 1998. X Winter School of Astrophysics "Globular Clusters".
    The IAC, with the collaboration of the European Commission (Framework Programme TMR, Training and Mobility of Researchers) and the company Iberia, has organized...
  • Publishing
    Special issue 1999. XI Winter School of Astrophysics "Galaxies at high red shift"
    The IAC, with the collaboration of the European Commission (Improving Human Research Potential Programme, IHP) and the company Iberia, has organised the XI...
  • Publishing
    Special issue Scientific Meetings 1998
    The IAC organised six scientific meetings in the Canary Islands in 1998. Two international congresses, three Euroconferences and the III Scientific Meeting of...
  • News
    Spiral-shaped wavefronts in a sunspot umbra
    There are many oscillatory phenomena in the Sun which show up from the deepest interior layers to the outermost layers of its atmosphere. The study of these...
  • News
    Spiral-shaped winds in old stars reveal presence of a partner
    Towards the end of their lives some 95% of stars evolve into red giants which lose their mass via a “stellar wind”. Eventually they end up as planetary nebulae...
  • News
    Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
    The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
  • News
    Stars shrouded in iron dust
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high...
  • News
    Study reveals how binary stars change their stellar dance with age
    Research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered that, in binary systems, stars that evolve into red giants change the way they...