Parameter
Night Sky Background
The sky brightness (SB) is the routine measurement of the night sky brightness in a moonless night. It is a sky quality parameter that allows for identifying...
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NewsObserved: an exoplanet where it rains ironNature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsObserved: an occultation of a brown dwarf by anotherAn international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
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PublishingPARALAJES InfraredA major fraction of the energy emitted within the universe is in the infrared, but we cannot detect it except using instruments specially developed to do this...
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ProjectPETeRThe Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) is an online laboratory that aims to engage Spanish students in science and technology and to foster the...
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GalleryPlacement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IACPlacement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC)
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NewsPLATO reaches a milestone in its construction, and is getting ready to look for planets similar to EarthThe PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) space mission, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), has recently completed one of the most delicate...
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NewsPublic version of PORTA, a novel 3D radiative transfer codeThe POLMAG research team of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which includes scientists from other international institutions, has released the...
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NewsRAMÓN GARCÍA LÓPEZ: “La instalación del CTA en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos supondrá un gran impacto económico en La Palma”Por Elena Mora (IAC) La red de telescopios CTA es Ciencia, pero no solo eso”, afirma Ramón García López, investigador principal de CTA ( Cherenkov Telescope...