The Thursday sesión of the “Preserving the Skies” conference on La Palma finished with talks by representatives of international organizations such as UNESCO...
Stars from the world of literature “touch the sky” at the La Palma Observatory
The participants in the first Hispanoamerican Festival of Authors yesterday visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, invited by the Instituto de...
Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high...
Cambridge University Press has also published the 1996 volume dedicated to the Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, on "Stellar astrophysics for the...
Students of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017
A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...