The IAC is an internationalized Spanish research centre aiming to achieve major advances in the understanding of the laws that govern the origin and evolution...
Severo Ochoa school: Exploiting extragalactic surveys in the era of large telescopes
The formation and evolution of galaxies is one of the most important topics under study in modern astrophysics. The advent of current and future observing...
Sextans: the smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until now
A team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has...
Sixth edition of "Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy" and other initiatives to celebrate the Day of Women and Girls in Science
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is joining in the celebrations for 11 February by taking part in more than a dozen actions aimed at promoting...
Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
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...
Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
Study reveals that giant planets could reach "maturity" much earlier than previously thought
An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other institutions from...
65 doctoral students and postgraduate researchers from 15 different countries participated, for 9 days, in the XXXII Canary Islands Winter School of...