News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

  • Rafael Rebolo López, Premio Nacional “Blas Cabrera” de Ciencias Físicas, de los Materiales y de la Tierra 2018. 
    El Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades ha anunciado hoy la concesión del Premio Nacional de Investigación en Ciencias Físicas, Ciencias de los Materiales y de la Tierra a Rafael Rebolo López, profesor de Investigación del CSIC, actual director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias e investigador con una larga trayectoria en el centro. Este es uno de los reconocimientos más importantes de España en el ámbito de la investigación científica.
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  • Meteoros gemínidas sobre los telescopios MAGIC (ORM, IAC) el 13 de diciembre de 2015. También son visibles los planetas Venus, Marte y Júpiter y la luz zodiacal. Crédito: J.C. Casado, IAC.
 
    This astronomical event will be visible from both northern and southern hemispheres, and the peak of its activity will be during the nights of Thursday 13th and Friday 14th December. During the second night there will be a direct broadcats from the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) thanks to the collaboration of the European project STAR4ALL.
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  • Rafael Rebolo, director of the IAC and Günter Koch, president of the Humbolt Cosmos Multiversity, during the presentation of the "First European Workshop on knowledge and technology transfer from Astrophysics". Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC).
    After the first “European Workshop on Technology and Knowledge Generated by Astrophysics” the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Rafael Rebolo repeated his aim of continuing to work to transfer advances to society as a whole.
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  • Figure 1: Visualization of the temperature structure across a vertical slice through a three-dimensional (3D) model of the solar atmosphere, taken from a state-of-the-art magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of the chromosphere-corona transition region (see Ca
    The CLASP suborbital rocket experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, provided unprecedented observations of the polarization of the solar ultraviolet radiation. The theoretical modeling of these pioneering observations has revealed that the enigmatic chromosphere-corona transition region is extremely corrugated, with a geometry much more complex than in today’s most advanced models.
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