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.

  • An international team led by Spanish astrophysicists has discovered that the origin of some of the radioactive elements found in the most primitive meteorites, whose origin dates back to the time of the formation of the Solar System, could have originated from a star six times the mass of the Sun and undergoing the final stage of its life as it passed through the solar neighbourhood. The mystery concerning the origin of the radioactive components found in the most primitive meteorites, those dating back to the formation of our Solar System, now seems to have a new explanation. An
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  • La búsqueda de una galaxia nunca vista o el rastreo de planetas extrasolares, entre las propuestas que reciben las primeras observaciones El GTC muestra una de sus primeras imágenes antes de su inauguración oficial, que tendrá lugar el próximo 24 de julio y contará con la presencia de SS.MM. los Reyes de España El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) ha entregado sus primeros datos científicos a una media docena de programas de observación, con propuestas que van desde el estudio de planetas más allá del Sistema Solar hasta la búsqueda de galaxias primigenias. El uso del telescopio por parte de la
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  • A novel technique has enabled a team of IAC researchers to be the first to analyse in detail the Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse The study determines those features that permit the existence of life on Earth and suggests that the search for life on other planets might be easier than previously thought A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been the first to make a detailed study of the sunlight transmitted through the Earth’s atmosphere and reflected back to Earth by the Moon during a lunar eclipse. The method consists in analysing the
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  • · Esta mañana poco antes de las ocho y media, hora local, ha sido lanzado con éxito el experimento Sunrise en un globo estratosférico desde el Centro Espacial Esrange, situado cerca de la ciudad de Kiruna (Suecia). Llegará dentro de cuatro días al continente americano, donde su instrumentación científica será recuperada por la NASA en un lugar indeterminado de Canadá o Alaska.
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