A study led jointly by a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detects a faint stellar glow which is distributed in virtually the same way as the dark matter in deep observations of six clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope.

The IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.

A Japan-Spain international collaboration team has developed a powerful 4-color simultaneous camera named MuSCAT2 on the 1.52m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez in the Teide Observatory, Canaries, Spain. The instrument aims to find a large number of new transiting exoplanets, including Earth-like habitable planets in the solar neighborhood, in collaboration with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in April 2018.

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos (MCC), de Museos de Tenerife, han editado un calendario astronómico de 2019 en formato póster ilustrado con la imagen del cúmulo estelar abierto de las Pléyades (M45) obtenida con el Astrógrafo STC (Sky Treasure Chest) de la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3) del IAC, ubicado en el Observatorio del Teide (Izaña, Tenerife). Se podrán recoger ejemplares gratuitos de este calendario durante los próximos días y hasta agotar existencias en la Recepción de la sede central del IAC en La Laguna (de 8h a

During the last three days over 60 talks have been given, presenting the latest scientific results obtained using data from the Gran Telescopio Canarias, as well as the current and future instrumentation for this exceptional telescope with which the Universe is observed from the Summit of La Palma.

On December 17th, 18th, and 19th the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna(ULL) are organizing a series of lectures on the processing of large quantities of data in science.