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

El Observatorio del Teide recibe este fin de semana a cerca de 1.000 visitantes en sus tradicionales Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas, organizadas por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) con motivo del solsticio de verano. Esta iniciativa, ya consolidada en el calendario divulgativo del IAC, ofrece a la ciudadanía la oportunidad de acercarse a la ciencia y a las infraestructuras científicas de Canarias de forma directa y cercana. La actividad está coordinada conjuntamente por el propio Observatorio y por la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3) del IAC, en el marco de las

The PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) space mission, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), has recently completed one of the most delicate phases of its development: the integration of its main components, the 26 scientific cameras and the service module that houses all the instrument's acquisition, processing, and control electronics. This stage, carried out at the facilities of the aerospace company OHB in Germany, marks a fundamental step toward the launch scheduled for December 2026 from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. “Almost eight years after ESA gave the