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.

  • Call for IAC-Nordic NOT proposals for semester 2018B
    We announce the call for IAC-Nordic proposals for semester 2018B. Deadline: 28 May 2018, at 17:00 h Canarian time (18:00 h CEST) Call for IAC-Nordic NOT proposals for semester 2018B Following the Agreement between IAC and NOTSA for the continued operation of the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), 5% of the observing time at NOT is offered for joint IAC-Nordic research programs: this is known as the IAC-Nordic Observing Time. This observing time is aimed at reinforcing the collaboration and synergies between the IAC and the Nordic communities through joint programs. The IAC-Nordic program
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  • De izq. a dcha. Myriam Bovéda, Romano Corradi, Rosa Dávila, Nieves Lady Barreto, Anatolio Alonso Pardo y Anselmo Pestana. Crédito: Iván Jiménez
    Al acto oficial asistieron representantes del Gobierno de Canarias, del Cabildo Insular de La Palma, del Ministerio de Hacienda, de la Comisión Europea, de GRANTECAN S.A. y del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Todos ellos destacaron la importancia de conocer la aportación europea a proyectos en las Islas como el Gran Telescopio Canarias y el valor añadido de los mismos.
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  • Imágenes del protocúmulo de galaxias llamado "núcleo rojo polvoriento”. Crédito: Oteo et al. 2018, APEX, ALMA, JVLA, ATCA, the Astrophysical Journal.
    Ivan Oteo, a former student of the University of La Laguna and of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias led the international team which made the discovery. Until now astronomers thought that these phenomena occurred 3,000 million years after the Big Bang, but this new result shows that they were already happening when the Universe was 1,500 million years old.
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  • Cartel exposición "FEDER, mirando al cielo". Crédito: Inés Bonet (IAC)
    Organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Department of Finance of the Government of the Canaries, this exhibition brings to the public all the technological development projects of Astrophysics in the Islands which have been funded via the European Fund of Regional Development (FEDER)
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