Audience: General public

  • News
    Sky protection is one of the central issues on the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is taking part in the workshop "Dark and Calm Skies for the present and future of Astronomy", which will be held in...
  • Document
    Sky, Sea and Ground
    "Cielo, Mar y Tierra de Canarias" (Sky, Sea and Earth of the Canary Islands) is a 40-minute scientific documentary.
  • Publishing
    Sky, Sea and Ground
    "Cielo, Mar y Tierra de Canarias" (Sky, Sea and Earth of the Canary Islands) is a 40-minute scientific documentary.
  • Event
    Sky-Live TV: Talk and premiere of the video about CTA in La Palma
    On Wednesday 10th June at 18:00 UT (19h in the Canary Islands/20h CEST) we will be waiting for you at the premiere of the video about the Northern Observatory...
  • Document
    Solar cycle and terrestrial climate
    The European Space Agency has published the book The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate, which gathers the contributions to the first Euroconference SOLSPA...
    Solar cycle and terrestrial climate
  • News
    Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
    A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
  • News
    Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
    A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
  • News
    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
    The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
  • News
    Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
    Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...