Everything visible and invisible, a course in Astronomy aimed at secondary school teachers |
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EMIR, a new instrument for the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), is bieng transported to La Palma today. |
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The IAC signs in Tokyo an agreement with the Riken Institute of Advanced Photonics |
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The IAC signs an agreement with the National Astronomical Observatories of China |
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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participates in the XX anniversary of the SOHO satellite |
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First showing of the video "COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS" |
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John Beckman: "Astronomy is a science that makes us humble" |
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Astrophysicists from the IAC discover an intense wind in the neighbourhood of a black hole |
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Transit of Mercury, live |
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Follow the Transit of Mercury with STARS4ALL |
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New data on the variability of the Earth’s reflectance over the last 16 years |
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Spain and Japan agree on the installation of four new telescopes on the island of La Palma |
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A SURPRISING UNIVERSE with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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The CALIFA third data release: an inspiration to be curious about the universe |
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The dark side of the fluffiest galaxies |
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Images and videos of the occultation of Venus by the Moon, taken from the Teide ObservatoryPHOTONEWS |
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The Nobel Laureate in Physics Klaus von Klitzing visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Teide ObservatoryPHOTONEWS |
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Out of this world: LJMU joins forces with Spanish astronomy institute to develop the world’s largest robotic telescope |
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The latest advances in solar oscillations and waves in sunspots |
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Confirmation that less massive planetary nebulae produce oxygen |
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Planning Starts for MOS and HIRES Instruments on the E-ELT |
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Two comets will “graze” the Earth on March 21st and 22nd |
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The writer Elsa Lopez learns first hand the multidisciplinary work done at the IACPHOTNEWS |
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A famous supermassive black hole “spied on” with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS |
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MERECEDES PRIETO MUÑOZ: “In the puzzle of the formation and evolution of galaxies there are only a few pieces to insert” |
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The writer Elsa Lopez visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory within the framework of the project "En un lugar del Universo..."PHOTONEWS |
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The astrophysic of the IAC Mercedes Prieto Muñoz is awarded with the "IUEM 8th of March" |
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One of the most distant, massive “hypercluster” of galaxies has been discovered |
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The international conference “ Big Data from Space” in Tenerife |
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International Conference on the “Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts” |
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Well known Spanish literary personalities visit the Canary Island Observatories |
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The European Solar Telescope, chosen as a Strategic Scientific Installation for Europe |
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Imágenes del eclipse total de SolFOTONOTICIA |
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Total solar eclipse from Indonesia |
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STARS4ALL, a platform to stimulate the European conscience about the need to defend dark skies |
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IAC Postdoctoral Research Excellence Program 2016 |
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The CHEOPS mission announces the drawings from Spanish children travelling to space |
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Toyota Canarias donate a vehicle to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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First showing of the "GALAXIAS" video |
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New twist to galactic magnetic fields |
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The Obra Social "la Caixa" and the CajaCanarias Foundation award doctoral studentships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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The IAC gets its second accreditation as a Severo Ochoa center of excellencePHOTONEWS |
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New findings in spiral galaxies challenge the dark matter hypothesis |
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Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10) will be visiting during the nights of 16th and 17th January. |
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El presidente de Canarias visita el IACFOTONOTICIA |
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Discovery of a massive supercluster system at z=0.47 |
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Regulation of black-hole accretion by a disk wind during a violent outburst of V404 Cygni |
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Three supernova shells around a young star cluster in M33 |
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New findings in spiral galaxies challenge the dark matter hypothesis |
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Earth’s albedo variations 1998-2014 as measured from ground-based earthshine observations |
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Early evolution of disrupted asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS) |
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Extremely fast orbital decay of the black hole X-ray binary Nova Muscae 1991 |
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The nuclear dust lane of Circinus: collimation without a torus |
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Lack of color changes in the transits of disintegrating material close to a white dwarf |
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ALMA Resolves the Torus of NGC 1068 |
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Unveiling the companion of Aquila X-1 40 years after its discovery |
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Strength of the large-scale magnetic field in nearby galaxies versus their rotation speed |
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New theoretical models explain the origin of oxygen in low-mass planetary nebulae |
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Type-II surface brightness profiles in edge-on galaxies produced by flares |
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Discovery of the polluting stars that form the second stellar generation in globular clusters |
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The dark side of the fluffiest galaxies |
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First direct imaging of the faint O emission lines in a planetary nebula |
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The magnetic sensitivity of the Mg II k line to the joint action of Hanle, Zeeman and magneto-optical effects |
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Catalina, a Christmas Comet |
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The IAC has contracted seven young people in the Framework of the Operational Programme for Youth Employment |
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First successful tests of new planet hunter “CARMENES” |
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The MAGIC telescopes detect gamma ray emission from a very distant active galaxy |
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A spectacular Geminids night PHOTONEWS |
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The return of the Geminids |
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Last days to register for the IAU Symposium "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts" to be held in Toledo |
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Awarding of the "Jules Janssen" prize of the French Astronomical Society to Suzy Collin-Zahn and to Rafael Rebolo |
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The upcoming installation of EMIR and other news about instrumentation on the last day of the "Science with the GTC" conference |
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Found: the lost generation of stars in globular clusters which stellar evolution models had predicted |
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How a galaxy bigger than the Milky Way can be built up in a shorter time that the Solar System. This and other questions from the second day of “Science with the GTC”. |
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A supernova that may not be one, and other scientific results from the first day of the V International Conference "Science with the GTC" |
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The 5th International Conference on “Science with the GTC” starts tomorrow |
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The GTC finds a mysterious microquasar in the galaxy M81 This object could host a very “special” black hole, according to the authors of the study, advertised in today’s edition of the prestigious journal Nature. |
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Science and Technology will be debated in the Technical meeting of RedIRIS in Tenerife |
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Identified around galactic halos, a fraction of the "missing" normal matter |
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Danny Steeghs: “High time resolution optical astrophysics concerns the study of objects using visible light, but on timescales of minutes or faster” |
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Elizabeth Ferrara: “The gamma rays we see are mostly produced by stellar remnants and supermassive black holes” |
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Phil Charles: “The advances through the forty years I have been a research astronomer have all been a result of the huge technology gains that have taken place since the Second World War, particularly in the space arena, where many wavelengths had been co |
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In memoriam Rod Davies |
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Julien Malzac: “Everything happens very quickly in the vicinity of a black hole or a neutron star” |
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The CCI (International Scientific Committee) of the “Observatorios de Canarias” held its 74th Meeting in the La Laguna University yesterday, Tuesday November 17 |
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Andrea Possenti: “All pulsars are neutron stars, but not all neutron stars appear like pulsars” |
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Exploring black holes with a clock |
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Tomaso Belloni: “X-rays, which are generated only in presence of very high energies, led to the discovery of the most extreme objects existing both inside and outside our galaxy” |
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Vik Dhillon: “HTRA is the study of how astronomical objects vary on fast timescales, where fast means milliseconds to seconds” |
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XXVII Canary Islands Winter School - High Time Resolution Astrophysics From 9th to 20th November in the Aula, the main conference room of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) headquarters, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, the IAC announc |
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The Canaries collaborate in following the Near Earth Object (NEO) 2015 TB145 |
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“We were lucky, we had a big detector called Superkamiokande and observed these neutrinos. We found that these neutrinos have very tiny masses”Interview with Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Prize for Physics |
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The Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has had its Severo Ochoa Award as a Centre of Excellence renewed. |
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Tecnodía: compartiendo tecnología en el IAC |
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First showing of the video "PLANETARY SYSTEMS" |
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Kissing each other, two stars are heading for catastrophe |
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Estreno de la película “El Mundo Anillo. Viaje a un exoplaneta” en el Planetario CETA-CIEMAT |
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El IAC recibe el Premio “Empresa ejemplar en Prevención” del FREMAP |
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The JKT, a historic telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, reopens, this time under remote control operation |
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Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2015 participated in the stone-laying ceremony for the prototype telescope of the LST |
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Los 20 centros de investigación de Excelencia Severo Ochoa piden una “reforma urgente de las leyes que regulan la ciencia” |
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The 'casting' of Spanish Science |
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Laying the first stone of the prototype of the LST (Large Size Telescope) |
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Kenneth Chang, science journalist on the New York Times, says that science is interesting because there are still so many unanswered questions |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Pere Estupinyà: “The effects of poor popularization are not usually noticed” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Pampa García Molina: “The best way to fight pseudoscience is to inform without teaching” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Rosa M. Tristán: “There is an enormous amount of scientific illiteracy in Spain” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Patricia Fernández de Lis: "The Severo Ochoa award has given an impulse to excellence in science” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Javier Gregori: "The Severo Ochoa awards are the 'European Champions League' of science" |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Pablo Jáuregui: "If science is narrated well, it can be exciting for all types of audiences" |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Kenneth Chang: “Everyone wishes there were a magic formula for figuring out the best mix of applied science and pure science” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Antonio Calvo Roy: “We won’t have a strong system of science until we have a robust communication system” |
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INTERVIEWS “100XCIENCIA" - Juan Lerma: “Understanding the brain is one of the major challenges of modern science” |
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Mañana se inaugura en La Palma el Foro “100xCIENCIA” |
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El IAC y Santander Universidades invitan a 25 jóvenes periodistas científicos a ‘100xCIENCIA’ |
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How is a galaxy fed? |
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FOTONOTICIA: Eclipse total de superluna desde Canarias |
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Total eclipse of the supermoon |
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EE.UU. aprueba la construcción del experimento DESI que tratará de desvelar el misterio de la Energía Oscura |
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A new eye on the infrared sky |
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INAUGURADA EN LA PALMA LA EXPOSICIÓN "LUCES DEL UNIVERSO"FOTONOTICIA |
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The Sun could have its magnetic axis and its rotation axis misaligned |
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“LIGHTS OF THE UNIVERSE” NOW IN LA PALMA |
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Thousands of drawings by European children will travel into space on board “CHEOPS” |
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CLASP has a successful mission |
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“VOCES” VUELVE |
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SARA SEAGER: “En 10 años tendremos la capacidad de encontrar vida en un exoplaneta” |
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Últimas imágenes de Auroras Boreales desde IslandiaVIDEONOTICIA |
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CLASP, a pioneering project to study the magnetic field of the solar chromosphere. |
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Auroras Boreales en directo desde Islandia/Groenlandia, con GLORIA |
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Perseids 2015 |
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El nuevo alcalde de La Laguna visita el IACFOTONOTICIA |
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The IAC describes its lines of research in five videos |
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El Mundo Anillo. Viaje a un exoplaneta, próximamente en su sala favorita |
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El presidente del Gobierno de Canarias visita el IACFOTONOTICIA |
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El “Sloan” continúa su exploración del Universo |
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The CTA has chosen the island of La Palma for one of its two observing sites |
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Pluto, observed with the William Herschel Telescope |
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Astronomía, arquitectura y simbolismo en la necrópolis egipcia de Dahshur |
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The lacy filaments in the wings of a “butterfly” called NGC 2346 |
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Nuevo récord de visitas en las dos Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas del Observatorio del Teide |
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What´s the Matter with our Universe? |
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3rd and 4th July, Open Days at the Teide Observatory, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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The King presided over the commemoration ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the Canary Observatories |
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The Governing Council underlines the brilliant achievements of the IAC in the last 30 years |
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EWASS 2015, the largest astronomical conference ever held in Spain, and with a major presence of women |
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ENRIC PALLÉ. “We shouldn`t have any doubts that there is life in some other place in the universe” |
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A hungry black hole which wakes up every 25 years |
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AMINA HELMI: Using the Milky Way and nearby galaxies we can learn about the distribution of dark matter in the universe" |
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Giant galaxies feeding, prizes for young researchers, and the search for extraterrestrial life |
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“SCIENCE FROM SPACE” |
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Looking for the best sky |
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MICHELA MAPELLI: "The centre of the Milky Way is one of the most studied, but nevertheless one of the most enigmantic places in the universe" |
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MARÍA ROSA ZAPATERO-OSORIO: “Brown dwarfs can potentially have rocky planets like the Earth in their habitability zones” |
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CARME JORDI “Gaia has already covered the whole sky” |
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<em>Gaia</em>, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, outstanding topics of the second day of EWASS 2015 |
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The King will inaugurate the QUIJOTE Experiment along with six robotic telescopes at Teide Observatory |
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LICIA VERDE: “We just ended the golden era of the Cosmic Microwave Background observation” |
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The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2015) inaugurated in Tenerife |
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INAUGURATION OF EWASS 2015, ON MONDAY |
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The SolarLab outreach project ends, leaving a major impact on the educational community in the Canaries after two years of activity |
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Special lectures in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos to accompany the EWASS 2015 meeting |
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Countdowns for the <em>Solar Orbiter</em> mission and the large EST telescope |
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Centres of Excellence in Research organize an international meeting between scientists and communicators |
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PASARELA SOBRE LA VÍA LÁCTEA |
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INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION "LIGHTS OF THE UNIVERSE"PHOTO NEWS |
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“LIGHTS OF THE UNIVERSE” |
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Tenerife hosts the II International Conference on "Thermal Models in Planetary Science" |
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First Light for the new instrument HORS on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) |
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The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science will bring together more than a thousand professional astronomers in Tenerife |
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COSMIC FASHIONFASHION SHOW |
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The Ambassador of France to Spain visited the IACPHOTO NEWS |
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A SUPER-JUPITER IN VIEW |
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La Red Española de Supercomputación incorpora cinco nuevos nodos |
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Research Centres and Universities in the Canaries organize an open debate on Twitter about R+D+I, with the collaboration of ACIISI |
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The Spanish Association for Scientific Industry is negotiating a cooperation agreement with the IAC |
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EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries |
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Five Near Earth Asteroids (NEA's) discovered with the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma |
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has initiated negotiations with Spain for the possible siting of its northern hemisphere headquarters on the Island of La Palma |
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PHOTO NEWS: Tracking the solar eclipse of March 20 |
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Eclipse de Sol del día 20 de marzo de 2015 |
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Total eclipse of the sun: 20TH MARCH. GLORIA will transmit images in real time, from the Faroe Islands |
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The IAC performs a simulation of the formation and evolution of a cluster of galaxies using the supercomputer "Teide-HPC" |
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FOTONOTICIA: El alcalde de La Laguna visita el IAC |
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Tenerife contará con un centro puntero en instrumentación científica avanzadaNOTA DE PRENSA EMITIDA POR EL CABILDO DE TENERIFE |
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An orange beam that helps astronomersPHOTO NEWS |
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OUR IMPROBABLE UNIVERSE |
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International Conference on Multi-object Spectroscopy in La Palma |
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FOTONOTICIA: Representantes del Partido Popular de Canarias visitan el IAC |
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EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries |
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The US ambassador to Spain visits the IACPHOTO NEWS |
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JUPITER, a laboratory for studying exoplanets |
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El IAC firma el acuerdo Marco Estratégico Tenerife Violeta (METV) |
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“Do you dare to measure the velocity of light?” |
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First Light of a "Guide Star" |
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A Stellar Marriage Doomed to End in a Catastrophic Divorce |
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sigma Orionis, much more than a star |
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Novedades sobre el cometa Lovejoy |
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The ACIISI signs a collaboration agreement with the IAC and GRANTECAN with a value of 20 million euros |
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A different story |
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