The European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
The IAC moves towards becoming a global benchmark in the manufacture of optical elements
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through its Optics Department and the Center for Advanced Optical Systems (CSOA), is taking a new step towards...
The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...
The members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been an active participant in the developement of this spectrograph which will be used for the first time on...
The WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM
The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team present the first observations with this new instrument. This is a powerful latest...
William Herschel Telescope inaugurates its new WEAVE spectrograph
Yesterday, 30 October 2023, from the telescope itself at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, the WEAVE instrument, a powerful...
“Without transfer there is no innovation and without innovation there is no future”
This morning in Alicante has started the 100xCiencia.2 meeting, which today and tomorrow brings together the vanguard of Spanish research: the Severo Ochoa...