Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have found a neutron star of about 2.3 Solar masses—one of the most massive ever detected. The study was published on the 23rd of May in The Astrophysical Journal and opens a new path of knowledge in many fields of Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics.

The science team of this space probe from the European Space Agency (ESA), led by Nazzareno Mandolesi and Jean Loup Puget, and of which personnel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are participating, has been awarded the Gruber Cosmology Prize 2018, one of the most important recognitions in this field of Astrophysics, which is granted annually from Yale University

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has published a detailed study of the evolution of the nebula surrounding the symbiotic star R Aquarii. The study employed observations from telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, and Chile taken over the course of more than two decades.

Ayer se celebró en La Laguna la X edición del Día de Nuestra Ciencia (DNC) del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), un encuentro anual en el que el personal investigador del Instituto presenta a sus colegas los trabajos que se están desarrollando en el centro para darlos a conocer y fomentar las colaboraciones entre los grupos de investigación y las diferentes áreas y departamentos del Instituto.

SPICA (SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics) has been selected, along with two other projects from among the 25 proposals presented, for the final stage of study and development for the next class M mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the leadership of the Dutch Institute for Space Research (SRON) and in close collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the project has major participation from Spain (Co-PI on the SAFARI instrument) from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA) the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), the Instituto de

A team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the National Astronomical Observatories of Beijing (NAOC) have published a paper which suggests that if we could travel at the speed of light it would take us 200,000 years to cross the disc of our Galaxy.