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.

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  • Image of the Sun from GONG telescopes network in Hα filter. Prominences are seen as dark filaments over the solar disk. The arrow indicates a prominence that oscillates. The diagram shows the horizontal velocity of the prominence. In the first phase of th
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    How solar prominences vibrate
    An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has cataloged around 200 oscillations of the solar prominences during the first half of 2014. Its development has been possible thanks to the GONG network of telescopes, of which one of them is located in the Teide Observatory.
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  • Cartel anunciador de "ALMA: en busca de nuestros orígenes cósmicos". Crédito: Museos de Tenerife.
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    ALMA: in search of our cosmic origins
    Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, support astronomer at the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) will give an outreach lecture on Friday June 1st at 19:00 in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife, in which she will talk about the details of this great radioastronomical project.
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  • Asistentes a la presentación del proyecto "CosmoLAB: el Sistema Solar como laboratorio en el aula" en el Observatorio del Teide. Crédito: Daniel López / IAC.
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    CosmoLAB: el Sistema Solar como laboratorio en el aula
    Ayer tuvo lugar en el Observatorio del Teide la presentación de un proyecto del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) que durante los próximos 4 años dotará al profesorado de Tenerife de información y material para trasladar la Astronomía a las aulas. A la presentación acudieron, además de personal del IAC, autoridades del Cabildo de Tenerife, quien financia la iniciativa a través del programa Tenerife Innova del área Tenerife 2030, y de la Consejería de Educación y Universidades del Gobierno de Canarias.
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  • The massive pulsar in the binary system PSR J2215+5135, illustrated in the Figure, heats up the inner face of its companion star. Credit: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC).
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    Researchers from the UPC and the IAC discover one of the most massive neutron stars
    Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have found a neutron star of about 2.3 Solar masses—one of the most massive ever detected. The study was published on the 23rd of May in The Astrophysical Journal and opens a new path of knowledge in many fields of Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics.
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  • The anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) as observed by Planck. Credit: ESA, Planck Collaboration.
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    The Planck Space mission wins the Gruber Cosmology Prize
    The science team of this space probe from the European Space Agency (ESA), led by Nazzareno Mandolesi and Jean Loup Puget, and of which personnel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are participating, has been awarded the Gruber Cosmology Prize 2018, one of the most important recognitions in this field of Astrophysics, which is granted annually from Yale University
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