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.

  • The double sunset in the movie "Star Wars" might not be longer pure movie fiction. The detection of a body orbiting around a binary star system in the constellation Drago leads to the possibility that this might be the first planet found in association with two suns. The eclipses between the stars gave the initial lead to an international team of scientists led by Hans Deeg of the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands. The candidates to illuminate this supposed planet are two binary stars 52 light years away from Earth, which orbit each other so close that they eclipse themselves

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  • Superordenador LaPalma

    LaPalma es capaz de realizar 4,5 billones de cálculos en un segundo Cinco meses después de su puesta en marcha a pleno rendimiento, el superordenador LaPalma “da a luz” sus primeros logros científicos. Tras procesar datos del Sol captados por el satélite japonés Hinode y compararlos con experimentos numéricos en tres dimensiones, un equipo de astrónomos encabezado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha conseguido explicar con éxito la formación de los chorros de rayos X en los agujeros coronales, zonas donde el campo magnético solar enlaza con el espacio exterior. Los

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