On 27 April, the US and European space agencies celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of the SOHO satellite by organising the International Sun-Earth...
Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies
The bulk of stars in galaxy clusters are confined within their constituent galaxies. Those stars do not trace the extended distribution of dark matter well as...
Investigadores del IAC documentarán el próximo solsticio desde Luxor
El canal sky-live.tv retransmitirá mañana este evento astronómico desde varios templos en Egipto gracias a la colaboración del proyecto europeo STARS4ALL.
IRSOL and IAC scientists solve a complex paradox in solar physics
In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been recently discovered in the light emitted...
Itxiar Anguita Fontecha, a fighter for Equality, Accessibility, and Inclusion
With deep sadness we are are sorry to report the death of our colleague María Concepción (Itxiar) Anguita Fontecha, outreach astronomer in the Unit of...
IV International Summer Course "Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands"
"The stars and their planets" is the theme chosen for the fourth edition of this training course, designed for school teachers, which will be held from 30th...
Clara Eugenia García, directora general de Política de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Secretaría de Estado de I+D+i del Ministerio de Economía...
JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”
The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...
JO PULS: “One of the current prime challenges is the evolution of massive binaries”
His interest about the radiative transfer began in a lecture about "Stellar Atmospheres" he attended when he was studying his Physics degree. He was previously...