One of the programmes of collaboration with Japan is related with the possible detection of gravitational waves of cosmological origin
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This scientific collaboration will give an impulse to the development of instruments for large telescopes, including the Gran Telescopio CANARIASAdvertised on -
This is the fourth of the audiovisual productions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with funding from the Severo Ochoa programmeAdvertised on -
On Thursday 12th May the space agencies ESA and NASA celebrated at a workshop the XX anniversary of the SOHO ( Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite at the Institut D'Astrophysique Spatiale(IAS), at Orsay, Paris, a reunion at which members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) were present. The IAC participated from the start in two of the twelve instuments on board the satellite: GOLF ( Global Oscillations at Low Frequency) and VIRGO ( Variability of IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations). The previous day during the afternoon the group of researchers on this latterAdvertised on -
The astrophysicist of the IAC was invested Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of La Laguna this morningAdvertised on -
The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). The results are published today in Nature. ( Video on YouTube)Advertised on