Light allows us to know our environment and also gives us information about regions that are out of our reach, as happens with most objects in the Universe...
Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands 2021
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and NUCLIO organize the seventh edition of the International Summer School for teachers “ Astronomy Education...
Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands 2023
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and NUCLIO join hands again to promote the ninth edition of Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands...
Our group works on theoretical astroparticle physics and our goal is to expand our understanding of the fundamental laws of Nature by exploiting the synergies...
The study of binary stars is essential to stellar astrophysics. A large number of stars form and evolve within binary systems. Therefore, their study is...
This project has three major objectives: 1) To determine the physico-chemical characteristics of bipolar planetary nebulae and symbiotic nebulae, to help...
Black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and their local environment
Accreting black-holes and neutron stars in X-ray binaries provide an ideal laboratory for exploring the physics of compact objects, yielding not only...
CAIN-III is a powerful and versatile instrument designed and built by the IAC. Its detector is composed by a mosaic of 256 x 256 HgCdTe photovoltaic elements...