From 3 to 23 November, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will bring astronomy to the public in the form of multiple activities, workshops and talks on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, ha presidido esta mañana la reunión anual del Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) en la Sede del IAC, en La Laguna, en la que ha anunciado que el físico solar Valentín Martínez Pillet será el próximo director de este organismo público de investigación. Los miembros del Consejo han agradecido a Rafael Rebolo la labor desarrollada durante sus 10 años al frente de la institución y han destacado su categoría profesional y su labor de gestión. Además de la ministra, a esta reunión también han asistido
A group of astrophysicists led by Mireia Montes, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered the largest and most diffuse galaxy recorded until now. The study has been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, and has used data taken with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Green Bank Radiotelescope (GBT). Nube is an almost invisible dwarf galaxy discovered by an international research team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the University of La Laguna (ULL) and other institutions. The name was
ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky, and looking so far into the distant Universe. These images illustrate the telescope's potential to create the largest and most accurate 3D map of the Universe to date. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led one of the first five Euclid Early Release Objects (ERO) programmes. 95% of our cosmos appears to be made of these mysterious ‘dark’ entities But we don’t understand what