Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...
Galaxies that don’t shine: simulations predict a hidden population in the nearby universe
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna are leading an international study on dark galaxies. ULL PhD student Guacimara...
An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo...
Galaxy transformation across the cosmic web: The influence zone of filaments
The Universe is not distributed uniformly. Galaxies are arranged in a gigantic cosmic web made of voids, filaments, and galaxy clusters. These filaments act as...
GalIMF–E-MILES library: Impact of an environment-dependent initial mass function on stellar population spectra
We present, for the first time, model spectra of single-age, single-metallicity stellar populations computed with the E-MILES evolutionary synthesis code...
Gliese 486 b: a Rosetta stone for the study of exoplanets
An international scientific team , with the participation of the Institutito de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has measured the mass and radius of an Earth-like...
Global Dimension and Sustainability of Research Infrastructures conference
Conference focused on analysing the sustainability of research infrastructures, their impact on the development of first level technology and their synergies...
Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). A telescope for the future
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) will be, due to its features, the largest and most advanced telescope when it comes into service in 2003. Promoted by the...