Tomorrow the IV Spanish Meeting on Active Galactic Nuclei starts in Tenerife
The meeting, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Network of Astronomical Infrastructure (RIA for its initials in Spanish), aims...
Total eclipse of the sun: 20TH MARCH. GLORIA will transmit images in real time, from the Faroe Islands
A team of astronomers situated in northerly latitudes, the Faroe Islands, will observe and transmit in real time (web platform: sky-live.tv) the details of the...
After more than two years without total lunar eclipses visible from Europe, next July 27 the Moon will cross the shadow of the Earth. With a totality of 102m...
Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
Traces of a planet having been devoured by its central star
Investigators from the IAC and Geneva Observatory find evidence that the star HD 82943, with two Jupiter-like planet orbiting around it, must have had at least...