Fifteen students from nine different countries attended a meeting from September 26th to 30th to learn about the measurement of the fundamental properties of...
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NewsSummer School on "Eclipsing binaries and asteroseismology" held in La Palma
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NewsSupermassive black holes change the central regions of galaxies
Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has led research which used data from the ALMA telescope in Chile to...
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ProjectTalk to Them: Women in Astronomy
What is it? It is an IAC initiative that aims to make visible the work of women in Astronomy-Astrophysics, while offering girls inspiring models to promote...
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TalkTango for three and ballet for thirty: the interaction of the Milky Way with its satellites
I discuss the dynamical interactions between the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies, focusing on the closest and most massive satellites - the Large...
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NewsTeachers from five countries embark on a new astronomical adventure in the Canaries
The V International Summer Course “Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and designed to train...
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NewsTellurium is detected in one of its places of origin
An international team led by a PhD student from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has identified the emission...
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NewsTemperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
H II regions are ionized nebulae associated with the formation of massive stars. They exhibit a wealth of emission lines in their spectra that form the basis...
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NewsTESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
From a single bright star in the constellation of Indus, an international team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham, with the participation of...
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NewsTESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
Earlier this year, a team of astrophysicists has revealed new insights on an ancient collision that our galaxy the Milky Way underwent with another smaller...