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.

  • Pampa García Molina is the Editor-in-Chief of one of the most highly valued projects of science news and outreach in Spain. This is the SINC Agency, an agency for quality news backed by the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). She will be one of the lecturers at the “100XCIENCIA” forum, and she is convinced that this will be a great opportunity to spread the word about the most outstanding research centres in the country.
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  • Rosa M. Tristán is one of the pioneers of the speciality of Science and the Environment in the Spanish press. She was the founder of the first section dedicated to these matters in a national newspaper -El Mundo- which for her meant “a privileged gateway to knowledge” as she herself puts it. Now she is working among other projects, in her own medium “Laboratory for sapiens”, with its own news section and a good number of subscribers and visits. She will be one of the participants in the “100xCIENCIA” forum where communicators and scientists will debate about their respective roles in the
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  • Gracias al acuerdo firmado entre ambas instituciones, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) concede 25 ayudas a jóvenes periodistas científicos o estudiantes de periodismo de últimos cursos y de distintos países para asistir a “100xCIENCIA”, uno de los encuentros más importantes en esta materia y que levanta más expectación internacional.
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  • Image of the comic web gas simulated by Claudio Dalla Vecchia, IAC researcher. The center of the red halo shows a galaxy in the process of formation. The simulation has been carried out using the supercomputer MareNostrum, within the project EAGLE/ADGE. C
    Using the GTC telescope, an international team lead be astronomers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected galaxies feeding directly from cosmic web gas. The observation is both expected and surprising – gas feeding is expected from theory, but had never been observed before.
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  • El eclipse total de Luna, que tuvo lugar la madrugada de hoy, 28 de septiembre, entre las 3:11 y las 4:23 hora local en Canarias (una hora más en la Península Ibérica), fue observado por varios grupos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) desde diferentes localizaciones de las Islas. Un equipo de astrónomos del proyecto europeo GLORIA, liderado por el investigador del IAC Miquel Serra-Ricart, retransmitió en directo, a través de la web ( sky-live.tv) y en colaboración con TVE, el espectáculo astronómico desde tres islas del Archipiélago Canario: Tenerife, Fuerteventura y La Palma
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