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Placement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC
Placement 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...
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NewsROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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NewsSAMUEL TING: “If we find complete agreement with the theory, we don’t learn anything”“I still remember the surface of the Moon seen from the Teide Observatory”. He will never forget the image: Sharp, close up, and brilliant. It was the first...
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NewsScientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary systemAn international research, led by scientists from the University of Sheffield and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has...
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NewsSHARKS survey detects more than a million invisible sources in its first data releaseThe first data release of the SHARKS public survey, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), was provided to the astrophysical...
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NewsSuccessful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared cameraThis afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...