The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team present the first observations with this new instrument. This is a powerful latest...
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NewsThe WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM
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NewsTouching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
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NewsTwo new rocky planets in the solar neighborhood
An international scientific collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered two new super-Earths orbiting a...
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TalkUsing Machine learning in interstellar medium
Artificial intelligence techniques are increasingly used in our daily lives. They also play an important role in science, including astrophysics. I am...
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NewsViolent flares in the centre of a black hole system
A international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton and with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has used the camera...
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NewsXXXIII Canary Islands Winter School - Overlaps at the Frontiers of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
From 21th November till 2nd December at the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos (San Cristóbal de La Laguna), and organised by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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ConferenceXXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
The XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), focuses on the formation and the evolution...
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NewsYoung stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the universe
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF, Italy) have shown that massive early-type...
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NewsYoung stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe
Elliptical and lenticular galaxies (collectively called early-type galaxies) are the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe. These galaxies were built...