The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the availability in 2016 of 14 fellowships as part of its PostDoctoral Research Program, most of them...
IAC research reveals hidden structures and a turbulent past in one of the largest spiral galaxies in the Universe
Astronomers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), using the 2-meter robotic Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) at the Teide Observatory, have obtained...
IAC researcher Valentín Martínez Pillet to lead the National Solar ObservatoryThe American institution is a leading centre for solar studies
Born in Alicante, Martínez Pillet will lead the institution in the coming years while taking on the challenge of setting up the largest solar observatory in the...
IAC Researchers explain the “excess” of Rubidium observed in dying stars
A new stellar model atmosphere, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, puts an end to the apparent disagreement between theory and...
IAC researchers find that the stars in Omega Centauri move under the action of a cluster of black holes
Omega Centauri is a large globular cluster, containing almost ten million stars, in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus, which has been studied to...
IAC researchers find young blue stars in a dwarf elliptical galaxy of the local group
The observation of recent star formation in the galaxy NGC 187 contradicts the scheme established in the 1940s by the distinguished astronomer Walter Baade...
IAC Researchers show that a black hole was created following the explosion of a supermassive star
After detecting the remains of a violent thermonuclear explosion in a star that now orbits a black hole in our Galaxy, IAC researchers, using the Keck Telescope...