This scientific collaboration will give an impulse to the development of instruments for large telescopes, including the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
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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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This is the fourth of the audiovisual productions by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with funding from the Severo Ochoa programmeAdvertised on -
On Thursday 12th May the space agencies ESA and NASA celebrated at a workshop the XX anniversary of the SOHO ( Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite at the Institut D'Astrophysique Spatiale(IAS), at Orsay, Paris, a reunion at which members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) were present. The IAC participated from the start in two of the twelve instuments on board the satellite: GOLF ( Global Oscillations at Low Frequency) and VIRGO ( Variability of IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations). The previous day during the afternoon the group of researchers on this latterAdvertised on -
The astrophysicist of the IAC was invested Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of La Laguna this morningAdvertised on -
The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). The results are published today in Nature. ( Video on YouTube)Advertised on -
Monday 9th of May, the YouTube channel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be broadcasting live the observations being carried out by the professional observers from the solar towers at the Teide and Roque de los Muchachos ObservatoriesAdvertised on