B-CycleS is born as an ambitious long-term research program that aims to provide a comprehensive picture for the formation and evolution of galaxies by studying...
The central PARSEC of galaxies, Adaptive Optics instrumentation development
PARSEC is a multiwavelength investigation of the centre of the nearest galaxies at parsecs scale. It studies the brightest mv <19 mag, and nearest up to ~ 20...
The evolution of galaxy clusters from cosmic dawn to noon
Our overall aim is to understand the role of environment in regulating galaxy growth from the first overdensities at z~6, cosmic dawn, to the galaxy clusters...
The formation of fullerene molecular nanostructures in space
NanoFullerenes is an ambitious interdisciplinary project to understand the top-down formation process of fullerene molecular nanostructures in space, involving...
The IAC has its qualification as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence renewed
The Ministry of Science and Innovation published yesterday the provisional resolution of the qualification of the Centres and Units of Excellence, granting the...
The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...
The internal structure of ionized nebulae and its effect on determining the chemical composition of the interstellar medium and the Universe
The project focuses on the study of the effect of the internal structure of temperature and density in ionized nebulae on the determination of their chemical...
The LiteBIRD space mission: development of the thermal monitoring and control system and scientific preparation
The main goal of this project is to guarantee and strengthen the technological and scientific contributions of the IAC to LiteBIRD, a JAXAled space mission...
The Local Group in Multi-Dimensions: Probing Galaxy Evolution with Structures, Chemo-dynamics and Star Formation Histories of resolved galaxies
We propose to investigate fundamental questions concerning the formation and evolution of galaxies, from the smallest galactic scales to those of large spiral...