Topic: Astrophysics

  • News
    The Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics successfully tested its solar corona measurement equipment in Palencia, where thousands of people enjoyed the total solar eclipse
    After months of work, the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) successfully concluded its scientific, outreach, and educational program in Palencia...
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    The Canary Islands Observatories visit the European Parliament
    The exhibition "100 Square Moons" is inaugurated in Brussels, together with a model of the European Solar Telescope. For a week the European Parliament in...
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    The CCI supports the option for the TMT to be installed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
    Statement supporting the selection of La Palma for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) site: The Comité Científico Internacional (CCI) of the Canary Islands...
  • Project
    The Central PARSEC of Galaxies using High Spatial Resolution Techniques
    PARSEC is a multi-wavelength investigation of the central PARSEC of the nearest galaxies. We work on black-hole accretion and its most energetic manifestations...
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    The Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IAC
    The Deputy Director of the IAC, Casiana Muñoz Tuñón praises the bravery and persistence shown by Francisco Sánchez which enabled the IAC to be recognized as one...
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    The changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814
    The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...
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    The CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
    CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...
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    The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
    A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical...
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    The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field from the photosphere up to the base of the corona
    Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the...