Audience: Scientists

  • Event
    Online Workshop "Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society"
    Since millennia the silent and ordered beauty of the night sky has inspired humankind in all its intellectual and emotional expressions: poetry, philosophy...
  • News
    Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf
    In the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
  • News
    Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula
    An international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
  • News
    P-CORONA: A New Tool for Calculating the Intensity and Polarization of Coronal Lines in 3D Models of the Solar Corona
    The solar corona—the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere—is extremely hot and very low in density. One of the main challenges in solar physics is...
  • Document
    PARALAJES Women in Astronomy
    PARALAJES Women in Astronomy deals with the role of women in astronomy, picking out important figures in the history of this science until the present day.
    Paralajes_Mujeres_en_Astro.pdf
  • News
    Pedro Duque attends the “official opening” of IACTEC and presides over the Governing Council of the IAC
    The Minister of Science and Innovation this morning presided over the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
  • News
    Post-common envelope binaries as the precursors of extremely red old stars
    Modelling dust formation in single stars evolving through the carbon-star stage of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) (i.e., the late evolutionary stages of Sun...
  • News
    Powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole
    The supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies have a basic influence on their evolution. This happens during a phase in which the black hole is...
  • News
    Presentation of the book “Observing the Sun from Tenerife. An adventure above the sea of clouds”
    Presentation of the book “Observing the Sun from Tenerife. An adventure above the sea of clouds” “The latitude of the islands, Teide, and the trade-winds have...