El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ha recibido el agradecimiento, de manos Pedro Millán, Director Insular de Medio Natural del Área de Medio Natural, Sostenibilidad, Seguridad y Emergencias del Cabildo de Tenerife, por su participación en la iniciativa “El Primer Viaje” para la protección de la pardela cenicienta. La iniciativa “El Primer Viaje” tiene el objetivo fundamental de aumentar el compromiso de los establecimientos de alojamiento turístico con la protección de las aves y en especial con la pardela cenicienta, así como informar al visitante de la situación ambiental de esta ave

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, are a series of objects called Centaurs, and transneptunian objects (TNO’s). The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is one of the most advanced international centers for the study of these objects, and co-leads one of the key studies which show what the coldest objects in the Solar Sytem are made of, and how thermal change is produced in their interiors. In two articles recently published in the same volumen of Nature Astronomy , spectra obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have shed new light on

La ciudad de La Laguna acoge la reunión anual del consorcio científico SPECULOOS, responsable del telescopio Artemis, ubicado en el Observatorio del Teide. Este encuentro reúne a destacados investigadores de instituciones de renombre internacional, incluyendo el Massachusetts Institute of Techonology (MIT), la Université de Liege, la University of Cambridge y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), entre otros centros de investigación. El objetivo principal de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo con el telescopio Artemis es la detección de planetas de tipo terrestre que orbitan

At the present time ground-based observatories have a wide range of instruments which can study the solar surface in the visible and infrared ranges. But it is not possible to combine these observations with those in the near ultraviolet, which cover the wavelength range from 200 to 400 nanometres, nor to maintain them for long periods due to the turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere. In this context, the Sunrise III mission, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, “ has become the first observatory to obtain spectropolarimetric data simultaneously in the

A team of astronomers led by ICE-CSIC analyzed for the first time a long radio-observation of a scallop-shell star in a pioneer study. The team observed the star using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located in Pune (India), and related it to the photometric information from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Las Cumbres Global Telescope Observatory. Scallop-shell stars are a recently discovered class of young M dwarfs. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are M dwarfs, although there are only around 50 recently confirmed scallop-shell stars. They show