A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...
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NewsSucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
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NewsSupermassive black holes change the central regions of galaxies
Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has led research which used data from the ALMA telescope in Chile to...
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DocumentSuperordenador LaPalma en datos
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NewsTemperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
H II regions are ionized nebulae associated with the formation of massive stars. They exhibit a wealth of emission lines in their spectra that form the basis...
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NewsTenerife, a knowledge-based island
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias hosts a panel debate about ways for economic and social growth, with Leif Edvinsson and Günter Koch, experts on...
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NewsTESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
From a single bright star in the constellation of Indus, an international team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham, with the participation of...
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NewsTESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
Earlier this year, a team of astrophysicists has revealed new insights on an ancient collision that our galaxy the Milky Way underwent with another smaller...
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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsTesting Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...