DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring
Last night, the 5,000 fibre-optic ‘eyes’ of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reached a major milestone, having fully covered the area originally...
DESI opens its 5.000 eyes to capture the colors of the Cosmos
The new instrument, the result of an international collaboration of almost a hundred institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has made...
Detection of Methane in the Closest Extreme Metal-poor T Dwarf
WISEA J181006.18-101000.5 (WISE1810) is the nearest metal-poor ultracool dwarf to the Sun. It has a low effective temperature and has been classified as an...
Detection of TiO and Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b
We present the low-resolution transmission spectra of the puffy hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b (0.53 MJup, 1.89 RJup, Teq = 1930 K), based on two transits observed using...
Development of the Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF)
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the IAC has signed the ERDF Agreement INSIDE-OOCC (8,139 keuros) to guarantee the implementation of 11...
On May 28, in the Tenerife Space for the Arts (TEA) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the IAC celebrated the XI edition of the Day of Our Science, an annual meting at...
Diana Morant preside el Consejo Rector del IAC, donde destaca que el Gobierno de España aportará 3,5 M€ extraordinarios en 2026 para su actividad
La ministra ha felicitado al IAC por haber recuperado este año la acreditación como Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa para el periodo 2026-2029, el mayor...
Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) warmly congratulate James Peebles (Princeton University...