In the document presenting the General National Budget for 2021 approved by the Council of Ministers for 2021, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million euros
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NewsThe splendour of the Seven Sisters
This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC...
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NewsThe star formation rate evolution of low-mass galaxies as seen by OTELO
We present the analysis of a sample of Halpha, Hbeta and [OII] emission line galaxies from the OTELO survey, with masses typically below log(M */Msun) = 9.4 and...
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NewsThe structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed
A Master’s degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra...
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NewsThe Subsecretary of Science and Innovation visits the Canary Islands Observatories
On June 28th and 29th, the Undersecretary of Science and Innovation, Carlos Marco Estellés, and his Chief of Technical Cabinet, Tomás Fraile Santos, visited the...
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NewsThe Sun revealed
Today saw the closure in Arrecife (Lanzarote) of the IV SOLARNET Meeting "The Sun, from its interior to its outer atmosphere" at which the international...
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NewsThe surface of asteroid Bennu: dark, rough and dense with boulders
Between August and December 2018, during the Approach and Preliminary Survey phases of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, a series of images and spectra of the...
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NewsThe synchronized dance of the Magellanic Clouds star formation history
According to the current theories of galaxy formation, these generally form as small entities that grow through fusion, collision and accretion, eventually...
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NewsThe Tenth Spanish Virtual Observatory School begins
From next Monday, until March 8th, 50 scientists will learn to use astronomical data archives in this meeting which will be held at the Instituto de Astrofísica...