Giuseppe Bono, astrophysicist and associate professor of the Department of Physics at the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy), is a long-standing collaborator of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), either as visiting researcher or teacher in the Winter School that this centre organises in collaboration with the University of La laguna (ULL). In this edition, he will dedicate his talks to near-infrared high resolution spectroscopy of variable stars. That seems a difficult subjetc, but he assures that the accurate scattering of changing light emitted in that

Científicos del IAC han participado en el descubrimiento de un planeta extrasolar inusualmente denso, con 1,5 radios terrestres, pero 8 veces más masivo que la Tierra. Este planeta pone de relieve que hay otros mundos alrededor de otras estrellas con propiedades extremas y cuya formación aún resulta un misterio

Una investigación publicada recientemente y liderada por una estudiante de doctorado del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), explica la formación de la barra estelar de esta galaxia vecina de la Vía Láctea

Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive that they almost become a star: giant planets and brown dwarfs. Mark S. Marley, scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in the Space Sciences Division, computes models of their atmospheres and he is helping to plan for space missions, such as NASA's WFIRST and LUVOIR, for their characterization. He will dedicate his talks to this topic at the XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Institute of

A este encuentro asistirá el premio nobel de Física Takaaki Kajita, de visita en la Isla, donde recibirá la tercera estrella del Paseo de las Estrellas de la Ciencia de la capital palmera

A solo 11 años luz y orbitando una estrella “tranquila”, el planeta descubierto puede convertirse en un candidato para albergar vida debido a su temperatura templada. El hallazgo, en el que ha participado un investigador del IAC, se publica hoy en la revista Astronomy & Astrophysics.