News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • Cartel charla Descubre el Universo para público general. Crédito: IAC.
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    La ACIISI te invita a descubrir el Universo con el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    El jueves 25 de enero tendrá lugar en el Palacio de Formación y Congresos de Puerto del Rosario, en Fuerteventura, un encuentro de divulgación científica organizado por Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI) y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) donde personal investigador del centro expondrán los avances en distintos campos de la Astrofísica y la instrumentación presente y futura en los Observatorios de Canarias.
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  • Diagram of stellar orbit statistics for CALIFA galaxies. The higher a galaxy's position, the larger that galaxy's fraction of hot (very elongated) orbits. The farther to the right a galaxy's position, the larger the fraction of cold (nearly circular) orbi
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    CALIFA renews the classification of galaxies
    This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have classified on the basis of the way the stars are moving, rather than using the morphological classification used until now. The results of this work were recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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  • Distant Milky Way halo giants marked on a Pan-STARRS1 map. Location of our targets overlaid on a RGB rendering of the distribution of Milky Way halo stars. Credit: Giuseppina Battaglia
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    Galaxies that feed on other galaxies
    An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo of the Milky Way contains stellar remains of massive dwarf galaxies that were devoured by our own.
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  • NASA, ESA, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI), J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI), N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich), L. Bedin (INAF, Padua), E. Bressert (ESO), P. Crowther (University of Sheffield), A. de
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    Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula
    An international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has revealed an ‘astonishing’ overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy. The discovery, made in a gigantic star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has ‘far-reaching’ consequences for our understanding of how stars transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today. The results are published today in the journal Science.
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  • Artist’s impression of a dust ring and several objects similar to giant comets orbiting around KIC 8462852. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
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    News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
    Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and amateur astronomers throughout the world, among them researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL). Today the first results obtained from these ground-based observatories will be announced. Observatorio del Teide.
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  • Meteors recorded at the Teide Observatory of the IAC between 06:13h and 06:38h UT (local Canary Island Time), on the 4th of January 2017. The brightest star, to the left, is Procyon (In Canis Minor), with Castor and Pollux (in Gemini) almost in the centre
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    The Quadrantids and the first wishes of the year
    This astronomical event will be broadcast live and via the sky-live.tv channel during the small hours of January 4th, with the collaboration of the European STARS4ALL project. This first meteor shower of the year may bring us spectacular images. We will have to wait for the Lyrids in April to be able to observe another meteor shower. Observatorio del Teide.
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