The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last night made its first observation after the necessary period of setting up and testing. They were able to obtain high quality data of some key objects such as the galaxy first explored by the Complutense university, known as UCM2325+2318, as well as the galaxies Haro 44 and NGC 77469. In the false colour image of the galaxy UCM2325+2318 the emission from the nitrogen and the hydrogen in the warm (10,000 degree) gas are shown

This writer and author of film scripts will be part of the multicultural project “En un lugar del Universo…”. He will be the eighth author to participate in this initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

In this activity, which will take place tonight, the public who attend will be able to collaborate in the detection of these objects, using “Cazasteroides” an application developed at the IAC

The international projects of large telescopes for the Canaries are supported by all the joint adminstrations, according to what was approved this morning in the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the IAC, celebrated in La Laguna

Desde hoy y hasta el viernes, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias acoge la III edición del Curso Internacional de Verano "Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands", en el que participan 45 docentes de 8 países.

Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered one of the brightest galaxies known from the epoch when the universo had 20% of its present age.