Science GTC 2009-2014: great science for a great telescope
The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), with its 10.4 m of segmented primary mirror, is one of the largest and most advanced optical-infrared telescopes in the...
Scientific instrumentation of the CMB laboratory at Teide Observatory - INSIDE OOCC
The QUIJOTE experiment is a reference project for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) research at the IAC. It started operations in 2012. Currently and in the...
Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31
In the 90s, the COBE satellite discovered that not all the microwave emission from our Galaxy behaved as expected. Part of this signal was later assigned to a...
Scientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary system
An international research, led by scientists from the University of Sheffield and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has...
Scientists find the explanation at the high temperatures of the solar corona
Caption: Total solar eclipse from Novosibirsk (Russia). In a total eclipse of the Sun, the Moon exactly covers the disk of the Sun. For a few minutes there is...