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.

  • Clara Eugenia García, directora general de Política de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Secretaría de Estado de I+D+i del Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, en la apertura del Día de Nuestra Ciencia del IAC. Foto: Elena Mora (
    Clara Eugenia García, directora general de Política de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Secretaría de Estado de I+D+i del Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, se encuentra en Tenerife con motivo de una reunión de la Comisión Delegada del Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Aprovechando esta circunstancia, inauguró esta mañana, en el Orfeón de La Paz de La Laguna, junto con el director del IAC, Rafael Rebolo, la IX edición del Día de Nuestra Ciencia, una serie de breves ponencias en las que el personal científico del IAC comparte sus
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  • Teide Observatory (above) and Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (below). Credits: Daniel López and Pablo Bonet (IAC).
    The International Scientific Committee (Spanish initials CCI) of the Canary Island Observatories, meeting last week at the University of Louvain (Belgium) made an appeal to all the relevant authorities to collaborate among themselves to facilitate the development of these "Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures" on the islands.
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  • Teide Observatory (above) and Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (below). Credits: Daniel López and Pablo Bonet (IAC).
    The International Scientific Committee (Spanish initials CCI) of the Canary Island Observatories, meeting last week at the University of Louvain (Belgium) made an appeal to all the relevant authorities to collaborate among themselves to facilitate the development of these "Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures" on the islands.
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  • Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
    An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Only a few dozen planets of this kind are known and its detection was made possible with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma.
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