Audience: Communications media

  • News
    Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises
    The most detailed study of the outskirts of massive elliptical galaxies at half the age of the Universe was carried out by an international team led by the...
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    Rocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition
    Newly formed stars have protoplanetary discs around them. A fraction of the material in the disc condenses into planet-forming chunks, and the rest finally...
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    ROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”
    He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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    ROMANO CORRADI: “One of the best telescopes in the world had to be in one of the best sites in the world for observing the sky”
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias(GTC), on the point of completing 10 years of scientific operation, is still the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world...
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    Rompiendo el techo de cristal
    Las Políticas de Igualdad en Ciencia han centrado la atención del tercer bloque del congreso, clausurado en el Hotel Nivaria, en La Laguna, con una mesa debate...
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    Roque de los Muchachos Observatory successfully hosts the first CTAO school
    The first CTAO School, which ended on 29 June, was a resounding success. The 27 PhD students travelled from 12 different countries for the two-week workshop...
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    Rotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way
    An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science...
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    Rough, dense with boulders and low albedo surface of Bennu revealed through images of NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
    The first results on the analysis of the images of Bennu obtained using OCAMS, OVIRS, and OTES instruments on-board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have been...
  • Event
    RUEDA DE PRENSA: primeras imágenes de la cámara espacial DRAGO-2
    El próximo miércoles, 5 de abril, en la sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna, tendrá lugar la presentación de las primeras...