IAC researcher José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, next Secretary General of the International Astronomical Union
At the next General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), to be held in Korea in 2021, José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, a researcher at the...
IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies
A team of researchers from the cosmology group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has obtained one of the most accurate measurements of the masses of...
IAC scientists detect a ‘sub-Earth’ orbiting Barnard’s star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun
The single star nearest to the Sun is called Barnard’s star. A team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has recently detected...
IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
IAC scientists obtain one of the most general validations of Einstein’s Principle of Equivalence
The study shows the potential of major astronomical observatories to test the laws of physics and to show their universal character. The results are published...
IAC80 telescope detects faint transit of exoplanet WASP-156b
Astronomers from the Agrupación Astrónomica de Sabadell together with the Telescopic Operations Technicians of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Marta...