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...
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated in the discovery of a frozen super-Earth around Barnard’s star, in the second nearest solar system to...
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated in the discovery of a frozen super-Earth around Barnard’s star, in the second nearest solar system to...
Our understanding of gravity could be incomplete INTERVIEW WITH PAVEL KROUPA
Throughout its lifetime, our galaxy has been kidnapping stars from hundreds of smaller galaxies. In the process, the stars that have been thus stripped away...
Out of this world: LJMU joins forces with Spanish astronomy institute to develop the world’s largest robotic telescope
Sited at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, it will be the biggest and most rapid telescope in its class, as well as having the highest level of technology