On 27 and 28 June this year various telescopes may be visited from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has organized two Open...
Next Friday, October 10th, the MAGIC and MERCATOR telescopes will be inaugurated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), in La Palma (see press...
OSIRIS, un GPS para localizar estallidos de rayos gamma en el universo
El instrumento, ubicado en el GTC, propicia el primer intento de estudiar de forma simultánea el entorno de una emisión de rayos gamma y una supernova A pesar...
OTELO reveals a population of “ghost galaxies” in the Universe
Thanks to the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Ganarias (GTC) it has been possible to make the deepest survey of galaxies to date (OTELO) and the...
Our magnetic SunNEWS EMBARGOED BY THE JOURNAL NATURE UNTIL 19H (GMT), WEDNESDAY, 23 January, 2002
A research team led by the IAC predicts and discovers the existence of strong polarization lines in sunlight in regions of the solar atmospheric plasma, where...