IAC Noticias: Distant galaxies. Summary: 20 years ago... Inauguration of the IAC and its Observatories, Meeting of the IAC Governing Board, Inauguration of the...
From June 26th to 29th the celebration for 15 years of the two MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory will take place in La Palma
MAGIC telescopes detect the first gamma-rays burst at very high energies
This ground-breaking achievement by MAGIC provides critical new insight for understanding the physical processes at work in the most powerful cosmic explosions...
MAGIC telescopes test the quantum structure of space-time
The detection of a gamma ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory allows us to study whether the speed of light in a vacuum...
Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy
There is a force hidden deep inside galaxies: magnetic fields. Invisible to conventional telescopes, they are a factor in galaxy evolution, regulating the...
It has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by...
MARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"
Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: “We must bring literature closer to the stars!”
The Nobel Laureate for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, accompanied by his partner Isabel Preysler, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
MARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”
Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...