Caosyciencia is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) for the dissemination of Astronomy and other related sciences. Since it was...
CARMENES finds a nearby Neptune in the temperate zone of an early-M dwarf
We report on the first star discovered to host a planet detected by radial velocity (RV) observations obtained within the CARMENES survey for exoplanets around...
Casiana Muñoz -Tuñón, new Deputy Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Casiana, an astrophysicist expert in galaxies, and Principal Investigator of the international collaboration ESTALLIDOS, will also lead the Sky Quality Group of...
Characterization of the host galaxy from gamma-ray blazars
The most extreme electromagnetic radiation that can be observed is known as very high energy gamma rays (VHE, E>100 GeV). It is the last window open to the...
The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
Chile and Argentina feature in the next solar eclipse
On July 2nd there will be a total eclipse of the sun which will touch land only in Chile, Argentina, and on the island of Oeno a small corral atol in the centre...
CLASP-2: investigating the magnetic solar chromosphere by means of telescopes launched into space with NASA suborbital rockets
Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical...