First Discovery of a black hole in the halo of our galaxy
An international team of astronomers, including investigators from the IAC, are the first to detect a black hole thousands of light years above the plane of the...
The Euclid Consortium announces the publication of its first papers, demonstrating the space mission's ability to search for wandering planets, study the dark...
First images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
First light for MEGARA on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last...
A team of astronomers and engineers from the IAC, ESO, and the INAF-Rome Observatory have achieved first light and successful commissioning of a new "Laser...
First light of ESPRESSO: a new generation of hunters for Earth-like planets
ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) on ESO’s very Large Telescope has made its first successful...
First light with EMIR on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)
The instrument, which was taken on May 19th from the IAC Hedaquarters, in La Laguna, to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, on La Palma, passed its first...