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.

  • Image 1: Photo centered on the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation of Taurus, obtained with the Teide Astrograph of UC3 from the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) which covers a wide field on the sky, equivalent to one hundred diameters of the mo
    This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC, at the Teide Observatory, as an element of the Project “NIÉPCE: from the negative to the positive”, which will be an element of the exhibition “100 square moons”
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  • Cosmologist and poet Yun Wang
    Yun Wang, cosmologist, poet and invited to the international scientific “Cosmology School in the Canary Islands”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which is taking place in Fuerteventura during this week, is currently a cosmologist at IPAC at the California Institute of Technology and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma. In these centers she explores the nature of dark energy. In 2012, Yun Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her leadership in dark energy research. “The nature of dark energy
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  • Participants at La Gomera Accretion Week 2017 conference. Credit: Phil Charles.
    The International Scientific Conference La Gomera Accretion Week 2017, dealing with extremely compact stellar objects, which lasted from 11 to 15th September brought together 65 researchers from 14 countries, and 4 continents, in the municipality of San Sebastián de la Gomera, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) with the collaboration of the Cabildo Insular of La Gomera and the Town Council of San Sebastián
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  • Sky projection of all galaxies observed in the 2MRS (Two Micron Redshift Survey) catalog (red symbols) at distances of 170 to 280 million light-years and the reconstructed underlying dark matter cosmic web (grey scale) using Big Data techniques.
    Between September 18th and 22nd the international scientific school “Cosmology School in the Canary Islands” will take place in Pájara (Fuerteventura), organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), with the collaboration of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura and the town council of Pájara
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