After a break of 4 years, on June 23rd and 24th the Teide Observatory will be celebrating its Open Days. This activity is free; its aim is to bring some...
New techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies
The group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
New technologies in astronomy and intelligent lighting
In the second day of the conference "Preserving the Skies" which is being held on La Palma, opened with lectures related to the quality of the sky in...
News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
Next week Nicolás Melini will visit the IAC and the Canary Island Observatories
This writer and author of film scripts will be part of the multicultural project “En un lugar del Universo…”. He will be the eighth author to participate in...
NICOLÁS MELINI: “Mi experiencia en los Observatorios de Canarias ha sido muy intensa, emocionante y perturbadora”
El escritor palmero finaliza su estancia en el marco del proyecto del IAC “En un lugar del Universo…” durante la que ha podido conocer los telescopios de las...
NORBERT HUBIN: “The laser star guide system with Adaptive Optics which allow us to have much better sky coverage and better telescope performance”
“Although giant telescopes are under construction, astronomical images with good resolution cannot be obtained unless they use Adaptive Optics”, warns Norbert...
NORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"
Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...