After more than two years without total lunar eclipses visible from Europe, next July 27 the Moon will cross the shadow of the Earth. With a totality of 102m...
Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
Traces of a planet having been devoured by its central star
Investigators from the IAC and Geneva Observatory find evidence that the star HD 82943, with two Jupiter-like planet orbiting around it, must have had at least...
Monday 9th of May, the YouTube channel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be broadcasting live the observations being carried out by the...
Tránsito de Mercurio: El planeta pasará por delante del Sol el próximo 7 de mayo.
Un “tránsito”, en Astronomía, es el paso de un planeta interior sobre el disco solar. El próximo día 7 de mayo se producirá el tránsito de Mercurio. Aunque en...
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y los Centros de Profesores de la Isla organizaron conjuntamente varias actividades de divulgación con motivo del paso...