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.

  • Poster of the activity "Habla con ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"
    Because of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women’s Day, women scientists and engineers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will participate, throughout February and March, in a number of activities to show the role of women in science and to arouse interest in science in young girls.
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  • Algunos asistentes al acto de colocación de la placa del Gran Premio de la Unión Europea para el Patrimonio Cultural / Premio Europa Nostra 2018, concedido al Heredamiento de las Haciendas de Argual y Tazacorte, y de conmemoración del 30º aniversario de la Ley del Cielo. Crédito: Demetrio de Almeida Rodrigues.
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participó el pasado sábado, 2 de febrero, en el acto de colocación de la placa del Gran Premio de la Unión Europea para el Patrimonio Cultural / Premio Europa Nostra 2018, concedido al Heredamiento de las Haciendas de Argual y Tazacorte, y de conmemoración del 30º aniversario de la Ley del Cielo.
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  • hydrodynamical simulation of a high-speed head-on collision between two 10 Earth-mass planets
    Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth to produce the Moon. An international team whose members include a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, are publishing the results of this work today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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  • A fragmnet of the new version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
    It has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by recovering a large quantity of “lost” light around the largest galaxies in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field.
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