The IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.
The scientific team of the ESPRESSO instrument meets to review its first 5 years
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the ESPRESSO consortium, has organized a conference in Lanzarote to review the current...
The second phase of the ALISIO-1 mission, which will take the latest version of the DRAGO infrared camera into space, gets under way
After the excellent results from its predecesor, DRAGO (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) the updated version of this instrument...
The Secretary of State for Global Spain visits the Teide Observatory
Yesterday there was a visit to the installations of the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) by the Secretary of State for Global Spain, Manuel Muñiz, accompanied by...
An algorithm developed by the Spanish IAC researcher Sebastián Hidalgo will be used for the first time at the international distributed computing event “Gobal...
Yesterday saw the start of the Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society) organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs...
The Solar System Group at the IAC discovers a new asteroid near the Earth
The discovery of 2024 NP2 took place during the night of July 4th in images taken during the commissioning of the TST, a new telescope recently installed at the...
Rome, with its knowledge of the skies, oriented many of its cities according to the position of the heavenly bodies, notably to sunsets and sunrises during the...
The Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrograph
The remnant of this huge supernova, chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA, is the third photograph taken with this telescope within the NIÉPCE...