El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha participado en varios talleres y charlas en centros educativos de las Islas a lo largo del mes de noviembre...
Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model
A group of astrophysicists led by Mireia Montes, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered the largest and most diffuse...
Nuevos directores para la Fundación Starlight y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos
2019 ha traído cambios a la Fundación Starlight y al Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos. En enero, Luis A. Martínez Sáez se despedía del cargo de director de la...
Investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias coordinan la edición de “Handbook of Exoplanets”, cuatro volúmenes con 160 artículos de especialistas en...
Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed
A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process...
The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...
OMAIRA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN: “The Canary Observatories have been essential in the advance of the study of nuclear activity in galaxies”
For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active...