Fifth edition of the “Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes” meeting
In this international meeting, organized between 25th and 30th June in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife) by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the...
Fifth meeting on “Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes” inaugurated
From today, and until Friday the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is organizing at the Hotel Botánico in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife) this...
First images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
First light for MEGARA on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last...
First light of ESPRESSO: a new generation of hunters for Earth-like planets
ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) on ESO’s very Large Telescope has made its first successful...
The first test images from its two instruments show its potential for achieving its scientific goals. These images will be used to check the instruments and to...
The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network...