The international team of the “Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter” (CLASP) space missions, which includes three scientists of the Instituto de Astrofísica...
The CSIC and the IAC take part in the creation of the Canary European Solar Telescope Foundation
9 institutions from 7 European countries today signed the documents for this organization, which will prepare the way towards the future construction of the...
The cultural and sky landscape of the Way of Saint James
A study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio has shown the relevance of sunrise on Easter Sunday, one of...
The Cumbre Vieja volcano taken with the DRAGO camera from orbit
The eruption on La Palma has provided a unique scenario for testing the DRAGO instrument, the infrared camera of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
An international team of researchers, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has discovered an extremely dense Neptune-sized planet...
The early sequence of events that shaped the Milky Way
Among the myriad discoveries presented in the second data release of the Gaia mission, there was an enigmatic color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Milky Way halo...
The effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasing
The Director of the Starlight Foundation, and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Antonia M. Varela Pérez has contributed to a monographic...
The Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...