IAC is developing a Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) bench, with the purpose of demonstrating in laboratory solutions of some of the main problems related...
MUNICHFEST 2025: Celebrating 40 years of research on hot luminous stars
The Munichfest 2025 conference will take place from April 7-11 in La Palma, Canary Islands. It celebrates 40 years of research on hot luminous stars, revisiting...
MuSCAT2 is a new instrument offered at the Carlos Sanchez Telescope. It has been developed by the Astrobiology Center and the University of Tokyo (P.I. Norio...
Infrared high-resolution echelle spectrograph for the Great Telescope CANARIAS (GTC) of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in the island of La Palma...
The Carlos Sánchez and IAC80 telescopes, known as TTNN and located in the Teide Observatory, are telescopes manually operated by astronomers (in person or...
NRT will be the biggest robotic telescope in the World. Located in the outstanding astronomical observatory Roque de los Muchachos, it is expected to open up a...
It is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) via its Unit for Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) with the collaboration of the...
The Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) is an infrared spectrograph for the EUCLID mission. The aim of EUCLID is to obtain a map of the Dark matter...
Nuclear Activity in Galaxies: a 3D Perspective from the Nucleus to the Outskirts
This project consists of two main research lines. First, the study of quasar-driven outflows in luminous and nearby obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) and...