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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  • TOI-178
    Press release
    Astronomers discover a surprising system of six exoplanets which orbit rhythmically
    An international collaboration in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias take part, has discovered a unique planetary system made up of six exolplanets, of which five perform an unusual rhythmic dance, while they orbit their star. Even so, the sizes and masses of the planets are not in any ordered pattern. This finding, which is published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophyisics, poses a challenge to current theories of planet formation.
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  • Lanzamiento de DRAGO
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    Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
    This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION satellite carrier of the Italian company D-Orbit, has been successfully launched into space on Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket. The Transporter-1 mission, as it is called, was carried out without a hitch during the first hour of the launch window which opened at 15:00 h UTC, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida (USA).
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  • HST imaging and narrow and broad components ALMA maps of ID2299. The top-left panel shows the HST-F814W imaging of the source, sampling the UV rest-frame emission from young stars. The top (bottom) rows show the CO(2-1), CO(5-4), [CI](2-1) and CO(7-6) ALMA maps of the narrow (broad) emission
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    A challenge to models of star-formation truncation in massive galaxies
    An international study published in Nature Astronomy, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, suggests that the feedback winds do not have a direct impact on braking the formation of stars in massive galaxies, and attributes the process to other events such as ejection by huge tides caused when galaxies merge.
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  • Geminids on the Teide Observatory
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    Quadrantids 2021: our best wishes for the start of a new year
    This astronomical event will be broadcast live in the early hours of January 3rd from the Canary Observatories, via the sky-live.tv channel, with the collaboration of the European Project Interreg EELabs and the Innovation Service of the Cabildo of the Island of La Palma. After the impressive data of the activity of the 2020 Geminids (the last major meteor shower of the year) the expectations for the Quadrantids are very high, even though this time the Moon will make it hard to see the fainter meteors. Usually the Geminids and the Quadrantids show activity approaching 100 meteors per hour
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  • Astronomical Calendars 2021
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    2021 Astronomical Calendars
    The Outreach and Press Unit (UC3) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), with the collaboration of Álex Oscoz Abad and the IAC Astrophotography Group ( research.iac.es/OOCC/refractor ) , has published as in previous years an astronomical wall calendar with astronomical ephemeris for the year 2021, which can be consulted and downloaded in digital format. The images that illustrate it have been obtained by Pedro A. González Morales and Jorge A. Pérez Prieto. This calendar joins another published in poster format illustrated with the image of the Heart Nebula. Both calendars can be
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