Asteroid Bennu revealed as an active object by the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
CAPTION: Composite view of particle ejection from the surface of asteroid Bennu on January 6, 2019. This image was produced by combining two exposures taken by...
Asteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroids
Asteroids are the remnants of the planetary formation in the Solar System and so, their study helps us to understand the conditions during the early stages of...
Astrofísicos del IAC se suman al XXV Aniversario de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía con charlas de divulgación en Canarias
La Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA) cuple estos días su XXV Aniversario y, para celebrarlo, ha organizado una serie de charlas de divulgación por todo el...
"Astromemory" Con motivo del Año Internacional de la Astronomía 2009, el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, del Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros del Cabildo...
Astronomers catch unprecedented features at brink of active black hole
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates in the study of a galaxy that hosts a supermassive black hole with previously unseen characteristics...
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of a primitive star
Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of California San Diego...
Astronomers discover a giant black hole that challenges current models of stellar evolution
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China and with the participation of the Instituto de...