At the present time ground-based observatories have a wide range of instruments which can study the solar surface in the visible and infrared ranges. But it is not possible to combine these observations with those in the near ultraviolet, which cover the wavelength range from 200 to 400 nanometres, nor to maintain them for long periods due to the turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere. In this context, the Sunrise III mission, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, “ has become the first observatory to obtain spectropolarimetric data simultaneously in the
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) estrena este viernes, 7 de noviembre, a las 21:30 horas su nuevo programa de radio de divulgación científica en La Radio Canaria, del grupo Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC) bajo el nombre de Soñando Estrellas. El espacio tendrá una periodicidad semanal todos los viernes a esa hora, aunque también podrá disfrutarse en medios digitales. Esta acción forma parte del acuerdo de colaboración entre la entidad científica dirigida por Valentín Martínez Pillet, y el director de La Radio Canaria, Mayer Trujillo; y su arranque se inscribe en las actividades
The team led by Claudia Gutiérrez from the ICE-CSIC and IEEC has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in La Palma. The CSS161010 burst reached its maximum brightness in just 4 days in a small galaxy 500 million light-years away from us. An international scientific team, led by the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), has managed to detect an exceptionally fast and bright cosmic burst in a small