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.

  • The PSR J2032+4127 pulsar at the moment of maximum approach to the MT91 213 star, a blue star with a disk of matter around it. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    A joint observational campaign with the MAGIC telescopes at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma) and the VERITAS array at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Tucson, Arizona), has detected a new source emitting very-high-energy gamma rays from an unusual system consisting of a massive star and a pulsar. The study has just been published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Reunión de la Junta Directiva del Observatorio CTA (CTAO gGmbH) en La Palma. Crédito: Iván Jiménez (IAC)
    The Board of Directors of the CTA Observatory (CTAO gGmbH), the company which directws the construction and the working of the future Cherenkov Telescope Arraty (CTA) is meeting this week in La Palma to monitor the state of the project. At the same time there will be a meeting of the Management Board of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING).
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  • Galactic composition of NGC 1291 in which its "peanut" structure is shown. Credit:  Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).
    Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in the inner bar of a double-barred galaxy close to the Milky Way. Structures of this type, previously detected only in outer, or single, bars are useful tracers of the evolution of the galaxies.
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  • Mesa redonda “El valor del cielo de La Palma”. De izquierda a derecha: Antonia María Varela, Marc Balcells, Javier Díaz Castro, Christophe Dumas, Juan José Díaz, Anselmo Sosa, Alicia Vanoostende y Juan Carlos Pérez Arencibia. Crédito: Iván Jiménez Montalv
    Hace 30 años, la Ley de protección del cielo de Canarias situó a la isla de La Palma en la constelación de los grandes observatorios del mundo y contribuyó al desarrollo de un sector, el de la Astrofísica, que ha resultado de indudable rentabilidad no sólo científica, sino también económica, social y cultural, para las Islas. Así se puso de manifiesto en el evento especial con motivo del aniversario de esta ley organizado en el municipio palmero de Los Llanos de Aridane por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el equipo del Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT), que sigue
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