From 3 to 23 November, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will bring astronomy to the public in the form of multiple activities, workshops and talks on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
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The Director of the Starlight Foundation, and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Antonia M. Varela Pérez has contributed to a monographic edition of the prestigious journal Science dedicated to light pollution and its consequences. The starry sky has been a source of inspiration throughout human history. Astronomy has been a common element in all cultures and civilizations, and has been used to establish calendars, to navigate and discover new lands, and to drive many scientific and technical advances. The article “The increasing effects of light pollution on professional
An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that could be explained by the gravitational effect of an unknown neighbouring galaxy. Named GTC-1, the satellite galaxy was discovered using ultra-deep images obtained with the OSIRIS camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The finding provides a possible explanation for a puzzle about way the light fades out at the edges of galaxy disks, a mystery that has bothered the
The DRAGO-2 instrument, developed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and launched in January from Cape Canaveral, has sent its first images of the Earth from space, showing a resolution six times better than that of its predecessor DRAGO-1. The space-borne camera DRAGO-2, (Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations), launched into space on January 4th, is the second instrument designed by IACTEC-Space. It observes in the short wavelength infrared, (acronym SWIR), a range invisible to the human eye, but nevertheless very useful for many studies and applications. In
