Macarena García Marín, astrophysicist who works for ESA and NASA on the Hubble’s successor, will explain the difficulties of deploying it into space.

An international team in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) are participating, observes how the magnetic waves which propagate through the solar atmosphere heat its outer layers. The results of this research are published today in the magazine Nature Physics.

An international team in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) are participating, observes how the magnetic waves which propagate through the solar atmosphere heat its outer layers. The results of this research are published today in the magazine Nature Physics.

Astronomers use the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to estimate the distance of the galaxy proposed as the source that emitted the extremely energetic neutrino detected last September with the “Ice Cube” experiment in Antarctica.

The Insituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(IAC) is participating in “Per aspera ad astra simul”, an initiave offering support for researcher mobility between the IAC and astronomical institutes in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Galaxy formation entails the hierarchical assembly of mass, along with the condensation of baryons and the ensuing, self-regulating star formation. The stars form a collisionless system whose orbit distribution retains dynamical memory that can constrain a galaxy's formation history. The ordered-rotation dominated orbits with near maximum circularity λz≃1 and the random-motion dominated orbits with low circularity λz≃0 are called kinematically cold and kinematically hot, respectively. The fraction of stars on `cold' orbits, compared to the fraction of stars on `hot' orbits, speaks directly