News
First Euclid results dazzle scientific community
The Euclid Consortium announces the publication of its first papers, demonstrating the space mission's ability to search for wandering planets, study the dark...
-
-
NewsFirst images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraftAfter two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
-
ProjectFirst science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...
-
NewsFound: the lost generation of stars in globular clusters which stellar evolution models had predictedThe specialized Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) is publishing today, in its on-line version, a study led by the Institute of Astrophysics of...
-
NewsFour years with SONGThe IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network...
-
ProjectFRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive opticsFRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
-
NewsGalactic ArchaeologyAn international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has...
-
PublicationGalactic cirri in deep optical imagingThe ubiquitous presence of Galactic cirri in deep optical images represents a major obstacle to study the low surface brightness features of extragalactic...
-
NewsGalaxies like Russian dollsJairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...