The third telescope of the Two-metre Twin Telescope (TTT3) situated in the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has seen its “first light”. This robotic 2 meter telescope, managed by the Canary company Light Bridges, is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an international scientific team in which research staff from the Instituto de Aastrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) participate. They used the European Very Large Telescope in Chile to monitor the velocity of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The research is published in Nature Astronomy . For the past twenty years, astronomers have known that many massive stars in the metal-rich Milky Way have a
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el Área STEAM para el Fomento de las Vocaciones Científicas y la Creatividad de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias anuncian el lanzamiento de un ambicioso proyecto de innovación educativa, Ciencia con PETeR: Investigando el Sistema Solar y los exoplanetas con telescopios robóticos. Esta iniciativa, dirigida a centros de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato del archipiélago, convertirá a las aulas canarias en auténticos centros de investigación astronómica durante el