The Founding Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Francisco Sánchez, will give the inaugural lecture of the conference “Giving an impulse...
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News50 years “Dreaming about the stars”
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News80ª reunión del Comité Científico Internacional en La Laguna
Ayer se celebró una de las dos reuniones anuales del Comité Científico Internacional de los Observatorios de Canarias, formado por representantes de las...
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NewsA biography of possibly the first Canary astronomer will be presented, based on the discovery of a set of mysterious old exercise books in the library of the IAC
In the early part of the XXI century, at a still uncertain date. A woman left in the library of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna...
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NewsA challenge to models of star-formation truncation in massive galaxies
An international study published in Nature Astronomy, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, suggests that the feedback winds...
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NewsA date with Science in Macaronesia
Tomorrow, Friday 28th September is European Researchers’ Night. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in this via the Macaronight...
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NewsA galaxy which outshines the rest
Gas is essential to the process of forming a galaxy. During the first stages the amount of gas present determines the number of stars which will be in the...
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NewsA gamma ray burst observed in unprecedented detail
A study which will be published tomorrow in Nature magazine and in which IAC researchers have participated, with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER...
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NewsA giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
An international team of astrophysicists that includes researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has...
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NewsA huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster
An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a very large, but thin...