Topic: Astrophysics

  • News
    Evolution of stellar magnetic activity: the Sun has similar magnetic activity as its pairs
    It’s been decades since the need to study other stars to understand the past, present and future of the Sun was realized. One important aspect that has been...
  • Project
    ExGal-Twin: Excellence in Galaxies - Twinning the IAC
    This Twinning action aims to strengthen the research and networking capacity, profile and impact of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the area...
  • Event
    ExoClock project
    From 6 to 9 June, IACTEC is hosting the consortium meeting of the European Space Agency's Ariel mission, dedicated to the characterisation of exoplanet...
  • News
    Exogeneous material found on the surface of asteroids Ryugu and Bennu
    The two near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, primary targets of the Hayabusa2 (JAXA) and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) space missions, keep surprising us. In two companion...
  • Gallery
    Exoplanetary Systems and Solar System
  • Project
    Exoplanets and Astrobiology
    The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active...
  • News
    Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications
    Galaxy formation remains one of the major open problems in astrophysics today. There is a wide range of mechanisms that control the transformation of gas into...
  • News
    Extreme magnification of a distant star by a galaxy-cluster lens
    Galaxy-cluster gravitational lenses can magnify background galaxies by a total factor of up to ~50. Here we report an image of an individual star at redshift z ...
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    Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole from La Palma
    This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which...