News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

  • A fragmnet of the new version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
    It has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by recovering a large quantity of “lost” light around the largest galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field.
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  • Infrared image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) as obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high fraction of iron dust, situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This work has used a combination of theoretical models of the formation of dust in circumstellar envelopes with infrared observations taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The work includes predictions for the future James Webb Space Telescope.
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  • Speed measured in the sunspot of the active region NOAA 12662 observed with the GREGOR telescope (Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain) Credit: T. Felipe (IAC)
    An international study, led by researchers at the IAC, reveal unknown details about the nature of a singular type of oscillatory phenomenon in spiral form detected in sunspots. The research, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, was carried out using observations with the GREGOR telescope at the Teide Observatory.
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  • Diseño artístico de una supertierra y su estrella. Crédito: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC).
    Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the habitability zone of a red dwarf star. It was detected using the method of transits.
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