Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC): 10 años de Ciencia
A lo largo de los últimos 10 años, desde su inauguración, el Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), también conocido como Grantecan, ha contribuido en gran medida a...
Gran Telescopio Canarias observations confirm that Hayabusa2's asteroid target is smaller and faster than expected
Astronomers have used telescopes around the world, includingthe Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La...
Grantecan helps reveal how the black hole in the supergiant galaxy M87 shapes its mysterious filaments
An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed and completed view yet of the mysterious filaments surrounding the giant galaxy M87. Using...
Grantecan helps solve the mystery behind some of the Universe's most powerful radio bursts
A new international study, using observations from the Gran Telescopio Canarias at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, has identified a plasma...
The Gran Telescopio Canarias today inaugurates its website grantecan.es which will communicate the telescope with the wide public during its observing nights...
Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that...
The study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example...