A new international study, using observations from the Gran Telescopio Canarias at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, has identified a plasma bubble as the source of the persistent emission observed in some of the so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most powerful and unknown cosmic events in the Universe. The data also allow researchers to constrain the nature of the “engine” powering these mysterious sources. The results are published today in Nature. Discovered just over a decade ago, fast radio bursts (FRBs) emit millisecond-long pulses that release an immense

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully completed the integration of the scientific detector into the FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive Optics) instrument, an integra-field camera and spectrograph designed to work with the adaptive optics system of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan), the world's largest optical and infrared telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The integration was carried out in the laboratories of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City by a team from the IAC

La viceconsejera de Planificación Territorial y Reto Demográfico del Gobierno de Canarias, Elena Zárate Altamirano, ha visitado las instalaciones del IACTEC , en el Parque Científico y Tecnológico de las Mantecas, para conocer de primera mano el proyecto European Solar Telescope (EST). Zárate se ha reunido con el equipo promotor del EST y ha recorrido las instalaciones del centro de tecnología del IAC donde están ubicados algunos de sus laboratorios de instrumentación. En la reunión han participado, entre otros, la directora técnica del proyecto Mary Barreto, la ingeniera civil Yanira