Topic: Astrophysics

  • News
    Characterization of the host galaxy from gamma-ray blazars
    The most extreme electromagnetic radiation that can be observed is known as very high energy gamma rays (VHE, E>100 GeV). It is the last window open to the...
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    Charla pública: «Ondas gravitacionales. Los sonidos del Universo»
    Mañana viernes, 22 de noviembre, a las 19 horas, en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, tendrá lugar la charla divulgativa “Ondas...
  • Project
    Chemical Abundances in Stars
    Stellar spectroscopy allows us to determine the properties and chemical compositions of stars. From this information for stars of different ages in the Milky...
  • News
    CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
    The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
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    Cheops, an orbiting telescope to characterize exoplanets
    This telescope was launched this morning from the Kourou (French Guyana) base of the European Space Agency (ESA) to observe minute changes in the brightness of...
  • News
    Chile and Argentina feature in the next solar eclipse
    On July 2nd there will be a total eclipse of the sun which will touch land only in Chile, Argentina, and on the island of Oeno a small corral atol in the centre...
  • Project
    CHromospheric magnetic fields in fLAREs and their evolution CHLARE
    This project aims to study the variations of the solar magnetic field in flares, the most energetic events in our solar system. Flares accelerate charged...
  • Publishing
    Ciencia GTC 2009-2014: gran ciencia para un gran telescopio
    El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), con sus 10,4 m de espejo primario segmentado, es uno de los telescopios ópticos-infrarrojos más grandes y avanzados del mundo...
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    CLASP-2: investigating the magnetic solar chromosphere by means of telescopes launched into space with NASA suborbital rockets
    Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical...