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.

  • Diagram of stellar orbit statistics for CALIFA galaxies.
    This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have classified on the basis of the way the stars are moving, rather than using the morphological classification used until now.
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  • Diagram of stellar orbit statistics for CALIFA galaxies. The higher a galaxy's position, the larger that galaxy's fraction of hot (very elongated) orbits. The farther to the right a galaxy's position, the larger the fraction of cold (nearly circular) orbi
    This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have classified on the basis of the way the stars are moving, rather than using the morphological classification used until now. The results of this work were recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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  • Distant Milky Way halo giants marked on a Pan-STARRS1 map. Location of our targets overlaid on a RGB rendering of the distribution of Milky Way halo stars. Credit: Giuseppina Battaglia
    An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo of the Milky Way contains stellar remains of massive dwarf galaxies that were devoured by our own.
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  • Imagen de la Galaxia de Andrómeda tomada con el Astrógrafo STC. Crédito: Daniel López/IAC.
    At the beginning of last year, the newly released Astrograph STC (Sky Treasure Chest) of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) captured the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This Astrograph, located at the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife), aims to obtain astronomical images of great field and depth. Today, NASA has selected this image as Astronomy picture of the Day (APOD). Observatorio del Teide.
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