Since 2009 almost 7,000 school students from La Palma have participated in the educational programme “Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” whose aim is...
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News10 years bringing Astrophysics to the school community of La Palma
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Publishing2000 Special. XII Winter School of Astrophysics "Spectropolarimetry in Astrophysics".
Every year, the Gabinete de Dirección publishes a special edition of IAC Noticias, in Spanish and English, dedicated to the Winter School, where the interviews...
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News2019 Calendar "100 square moons"
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC) of Museums of Tenerife, have produced the astronomical calendar...
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Document2019 Calendar "100 square moons"
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC) of Museums of Tenerife, have produced the astronomical calendar...
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NewsA chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology
Sunspots are intense collections of magnetic fields that pierce through the Sun’s photosphere, with their signatures extending upwards into the outermost...
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NewsA distance of 13 Mpc resolves the claimed anomalies of the galaxy lacking dark matter
The claimed detection of a diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter represents a possible challenge to our understanding of the properties of these galaxies and...
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NewsA giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
Surveys have shown that super-Earth and Neptune-mass exoplanets are more frequent than gas giants around low-mass stars, as predicted by the core accretion...
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NewsA giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda galaxy
The combination of a white dwarf mass close to the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 solar masses) and a fast hydrogen accretion rate (10 -7 solar masses per year) from...
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NewsA new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...