Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
SolarLab was an educational project of the IAC aimed at secondary and pre-university colleges in the Canaries. The project had at its disposal three telescopes...
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...
Solving the paradox of the enigmatic solar sodium D1 line polarization
In 1998 the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization (a particular property of light) that had been recently...
Sources of light which appear and disappear observed in the sky
An international research team from the Institute de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Stockholm have discovered around a hundred very red...
Special 1998. X Winter School of Astrophysics "Globular Clusters".
The IAC, with the collaboration of the European Commission (Framework Programme TMR, Training and Mobility of Researchers) and the company Iberia, has organized...