The Gran Telescopio Canarias today inaugurates its website grantecan.es which will communicate the telescope with the wide public during its observing nights...
Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that...
Great researchers who have visited the IAC, at a click
During the past 10 years important figures in the scientific world have visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Now you can enjoy the scientific...
The study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example...
GTC studies the origin of the neutrino detected in the “Ice Cube” in the South Pole
Astronomers use the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to estimate the distance of the galaxy proposed as the source that emitted the extremely energetic neutrino...
GUIDO MÜNCH: «En Marte pudo haber vida, de la que tal vez se podrían encontrar restos fósiles si buscásemos en el lugar apropiado”
Entrevista publicada en IAC Noticias. N° 1- 1994. Sección "A través del prisma" Propuesto por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias al «Premio Príncipe...
Hallan el segundo sistema planetario más cercano a la Tierra
A solo 11 años luz y orbitando una estrella “tranquila”, el planeta descubierto puede convertirse en un candidato para albergar vida debido a su temperatura...
HARMONI pases its design revisión and will be the spectrograph on the future ELT
The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will...
Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
An international team of astronomers, in which IAC researchers participate, have discovered barium, the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere...