Yesterday saw the start of the Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society) organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs...
The six-monthly meeting of the International Scientific Committee of the IAC observatories met in La Palma
It took place on May 24th and 25th in the meeting room of the Parador in Breña Baja A large group of representatives of the various institutions which take part...
Rome, with its knowledge of the skies, oriented many of its cities according to the position of the heavenly bodies, notably to sunsets and sunrises during the...
The Space Working Group of the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Council gets to know the Canary Islands Observatories
Members of the Space Working Group of the Competitiveness and Innovation Council of the European Union (Space Group) held a working meeting in San Cristóbal de...
The Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrograph
The remnant of this huge supernova, chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA, is the third photograph taken with this telescope within the NIÉPCE...
The Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million euros
In the document presenting the General National Budget for 2021 approved by the Council of Ministers for 2021, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC...
The star formation rate evolution of low-mass galaxies as seen by OTELO
We present the analysis of a sample of Halpha, Hbeta and [OII] emission line galaxies from the OTELO survey, with masses typically below log(M */Msun) = 9.4 and...
The structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed
A Master’s degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra...