Last week, the founder of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, one of whose telescopes is at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife), paid a visit to...
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NewsWayne Rosing visits the IAC and the Canary Observatories
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NewsWe "see" the invisible matter only through its gravitational attraction'INTERVIEW WITH KEN FREEMAN
Ken Freeman is interested in the forces that govern galaxies and how the latter manage to accumulate in different shapes and sizes. He is particularly intrigued...
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NewsWEAVE is ready to start operating in La Palma
All the main components of the new multiobject spectrograph WEAVE on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
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NewsWell known Spanish literary personalities visit the Canary Island Observatories
The author Elsa López will be the first to participate in the cross-disciplinary project “En un lugar del Universo…” an initiative of the Instituto de...
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NewsWhat we learn from the Milky Way about the hierarchical formation scenario can be extended to other large galaxies'
Detail and realism in equal measures are what Puragra Guhathakurta likes to reflect in his in both his research projects and his artistic creations. An amateur...
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NewsWhat were the first stars in the Universe like?
Recent observations with the GTC take us a step closer to conditions in the early Universe
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NewsWhat´s the Matter with our Universe?
Next Friday, lecture by the Canadian astrophysicist Stéphane Coureau in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos
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NewsWhen science and philosophy meet.
Tomorrow, Saturday, an international conference will open in Tenerife dealing with the ideas and current researchon the origin of the Universe, organized b y...
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NewsWhere giant galaxies are born
An international team of scientists, with IAC participation, has discovered that the biggest galaxies in the universe develop in cosmic clouds of cold gas. This...