Life, as we know it, exists only on Earth. The emergence of life here may be a matter of probability or luck, but in Science there is no place for the second. Evidence is needed and, for this reason, there are researchers like Malcolm Fridlund, an expert on Astrobiology and Exoplanets, bent on finding other earths that can host some form of life, however simple it may be. Professor at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and Affiliated Professor at the Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg (Sweden), he has been involved in instrumental development and space missions of ESA and NASA

This IAC project, funded by the FECYT, will allow us to put together the biggest panoramic image of our galaxy without using professional telescopes. The photographs will be taken with a digital camera from the Teide Observatory, and will generate material for many outreach and educational applications.

This IAC project, funded by the FECYT, will allow us to put together the biggest panoramic image of our galaxy without using professional telescopes. The photographs will be taken with a digital camera from the Teide Observatory, and will generate material for many outreach and educational applications.

Their detection in the interacting galaxies, the “Antennae”, was possible thanks to a new method –BUBBLY- developed by IAC researchers and the GHaFaS instrument installed on the William Herschel Telescope.

Their detection in the interacting galaxies, the “Antennae”, was possible thanks to a new method –BUBBLY- developed by IAC researchers and the GHaFaS instrument installed on the William Herschel Telescope.

The host galaxy of a powerful galactic nucleus revealed using the CIRCE camera on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). This discovery, in which the IAC participated, has reopened the debate about the galaxies which contain these nuclei.