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 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.

Mañana jueves, 16 de noviembre, a las 19 h, en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, tendrá lugar la charla divulgativa “La vida de una estrella en un arco iris” a cargo de la investigadora del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Antonia M. Varela. La conferencia, organizada por el IAC en el marco de la XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, será en castellano con traducción simultánea al inglés

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

Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo (Norway) and director of the center of excellence "Rosseland Center for Solar Physics", Mats Carlsson uses computer simulations to manage giant amounts of data in order to shed light about his field of study: stellar atmospheres codes. In the XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) this year, Carlsson will explain how to obtain information about the light that escapes from steller atmospheres and other issues related to radiative transfer.

This picture, obtained within the framework of the IAC project “GALÁCTICA” funded by the FECYT, it is been chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA.