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.

  • "Gamma-rays and Comet Dust" (Rayos Gamma y polvo de cometa). Crédito: Daniel López. Esta imagen, en la que se ven los telescopios MAGIC, en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), y la lluvia de estrellas de las Perseidas, fue sele
    The IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative, with which they will remind people of the importance and the scope of the “Law for the Protection of the Astronomical Quality of the Observatories of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias”.
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    Tomorrow, Friday 28th September is European Researchers’ Night. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in this via the Macaronight project, with around twenty talks and workshops will take place throughout the day in the Plaza del Adelantado in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and in the Espacio Cultural Aguere, in the same municipality.
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  • Telescopio de Juan Valderrama, actualmente en exposición en el Observatorio Atmosférico de Izaña. Crédito: Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife.
    In the early part of the XXI century, at a still uncertain date. A woman left in the library of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna, seven exercise books with astronomical observations made over a hundred years before by a certain Juan Valderrama y Aguilar. As no-one at first realized their importance, the books were neglected for some ten years, until they were rediscovered by accident by researchers from the IAC and research on them began. On Wednesday 26th September at 19.00 h an edition of these observations will be presented in the Museum of Science and the
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  • This artist's rendering shows a disk of dust and planetary fragments around a star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. 
    The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply into the analysis of this exceptional white dwarf, which shows periodic transits produced by fragments of a shredded planetesimal. The observations used for this research were obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and with the Liverpool Telescope.
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  • La Vía Láctea y el Dolmen Datal en Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres, Extremadura). Crédito: J. C. Casado / STARRYEARTH.
    Next Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere. The two equinoxes, in September and March, are the only days when the Sun rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west. The autumnal equinox will be broadcast live from the Dólmen Zarfra3 in Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres, Extremadura) via the channel sky-live.tv, on the early morning of September 23rd, with the collaboration of the European STARS4ALL project, and an iniciative of the Junta of Extremadura “Extremadura, Good
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