An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift...
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NewsNew measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
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NewsNew Open Days at the Teide Observatory
After a break of 4 years, on June 23rd and 24th the Teide Observatory will be celebrating its Open Days. This activity is free; its aim is to bring some...
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NewsNew techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies
The group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
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ProjectNIÉPCE
It is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) via its Unit for Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) with the collaboration of the...
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NewsNORBERT HUBIN: “The laser star guide system with Adaptive Optics which allow us to have much better sky coverage and better telescope performance”
“Although giant telescopes are under construction, astronomical images with good resolution cannot be obtained unless they use Adaptive Optics”, warns Norbert...
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NewsNow available in open access some of the lectures of the latest educational adventure of the IAC
Under the title "Our home in the cosmic ocean", the seventh edition of the international summer course "Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands" has...
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DocumentNRT leaflet
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NewsNuestro vecindario solar se llena de planetas
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participa en el descubrimiento de una súper-Tierra congelada, alrededor de la estrella de Barnard, en el segundo sistema...
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ProjectNuestros Alumnos y el ORM
The LPIYA Group gathers communicators and representatives from every institution present at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), with the objective of...