The Canary Islands Observatories visit the European Parliament
The exhibition "100 Square Moons" is inaugurated in Brussels, together with a model of the European Solar Telescope. For a week the European Parliament in...
The changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814
The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...
The CTA and the IAC celebrate the International Day of Light with an outreach day in Garafía
A visit to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory with the students of the Santo Domingo secondary school, and a public lecture about the new generation of...
The CTA-North Observatory: a network of opportunities for Spanish industry
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) are organizing a one day event in Madrid to inform...
The early sequence of events that shaped the Milky Way
Among the myriad discoveries presented in the second data release of the Gaia mission, there was an enigmatic color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Milky Way halo...
The extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf star
We present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
The first hybrid edition of the International Summer School for Teachers at the IAC has concluded
Last week saw the ending of the eighth edition of the school “Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands” coordinated by the IAC and NUCLIO, with the...
The IAC and February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
During the month of February, women researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in lectures, workshops and debates to publicize...
The IAC is celebrating 10 years of Educational Adventure in Astronomy
Yesterday saw the start of the 10th International School Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands (AEACI 2024) which will be celebrated during the...