Topic: Observing tools

  • News
    Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
    An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
  • Publishing
    PARALAJES Infrared
    A major fraction of the energy emitted within the universe is in the infrared, but we cannot detect it except using instruments specially developed to do this...
  • Project
    PETeR
    The Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) is an online laboratory that aims to engage Spanish students in science and technology and to foster the...
  • Gallery
    Placement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC
    Placement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC)
  • News
    Public version of PORTA, a novel 3D radiative transfer code
    The POLMAG research team of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which includes scientists from other international institutions, has released the...
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    RAMÓN GARCÍA LÓPEZ: “La instalación del CTA en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos supondrá un gran impacto económico en La Palma”
    Por Elena Mora (IAC) La red de telescopios CTA es Ciencia, pero no solo eso”, afirma Ramón García López, investigador principal de CTA ( Cherenkov Telescope...
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    ROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”
    He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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    SAMUEL TING: “If we find complete agreement with the theory, we don’t learn anything”
    “I still remember the surface of the Moon seen from the Teide Observatory”. He will never forget the image: Sharp, close up, and brilliant. It was the first...
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    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...