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.

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  • Vista artística del telescopio espacial infrarrojo SPICA (SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics). Crédito: JAXA, consorcio SPICA, Universidad de Nagoya.
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    SPICA, a candidate for the next class M scientific mission of ESA
    SPICA (SPace IR telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics) has been selected, along with two other projects from among the 25 proposals presented, for the final stage of study and development for the next class M mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the leadership of the Dutch Institute for Space Research (SRON) and in close collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), the project has major participation from Spain (Co-PI on the SAFARI instrument) from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA) the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), the Instituto de
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  • Call for IAC-Nordic NOT proposals for semester 2018B
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    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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  • The coloured region is the previously known Galactic disk. The present work has extended its limits much farther away: there is a probability 99.7% or 95.4% respectively that there are disk stars in the regions outside the dashed/dotted circles. Yellow do
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    The disc of the Milky Way is bigger than we thought
    A team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the National Astronomical Observatories of Beijing (NAOC) have published a paper which suggests that if we could travel at the speed of light it would take us 200,000 years to cross the disc of our Galaxy.
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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
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    Presentación en La Palma de la exposición “FEDER, mirando el cielo”
    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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  • Imagen de la lluvia de estrellas fugaces Gemínidas sobre el volcán Teide (Tenerife, Islas Canarias) en diciembre de 2013. Crédito: J.C. Casado.
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    The Eta Aquarids 2018, the first meteor shower in May
    This phenomenon will be visible from the southern hemisphere, and just at our dawn will be visible from the northern hemisphere at mid-latitude. The STARS4ALL project will broadcast it live from the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) and from the Observatori Astronòmic d’Albanyà (Girona).
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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.
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    Researchers at the IAC participate in the discovery of clusters of galaxies in the early universe
    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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