IAC80 telescope detects faint transit of exoplanet WASP-156b
Astronomers from the Agrupación Astrónomica de Sabadell together with the Telescopic Operations Technicians of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Marta...
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for “technosignatures” -evidence for the use of...
IGOR NOVIKOV: “Dentro de 100 años, la máquina del tiempo será teóricamente viable”
Este atrevido astrónomo ruso de 60 años, experto en Cosmología y física cuántica, ha presidido la Comisión de Cosmología de la Unión Astronómica Internacional...
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
One of the most interesting questions for astrophysicists for the past few decades is how and when did the first galaxies form. One of the possible answers to...
Inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope at the Teide Observatory
This new telescope for finding Earth-like planets which may transit some of the smaller cooler stars in the solar neighbourhood joints the SPECULOOS network of...
Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies
The bulk of stars in galaxy clusters are confined within their constituent galaxies. Those stars do not trace the extended distribution of dark matter well as...
Ionized gas kinematics and massive star formation in NGC 1530
Abstract. We present emission line mapping of the strongly barred galaxy NGC 1530 obtained using Fabry-P´erot interferometry in Hα, at significantly enhanced...