Audience: Scientists

  • News
    Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron
    Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
  • News
    Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
    An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
  • Document
    On-line communications manual for researchers
    The results of the research should also be open to the non-expert public. In this manual you will find the keys to communicate.
    Web Universidad de La Rioja
  • Event
    Online Workshop "Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society"
    Since millennia the silent and ordered beauty of the night sky has inspired humankind in all its intellectual and emotional expressions: poetry, philosophy...
  • News
    Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf
    In the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
  • News
    Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula
    An international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
  • News
    P-CORONA: A New Tool for Calculating the Intensity and Polarization of Coronal Lines in 3D Models of the Solar Corona
    The solar corona—the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere—is extremely hot and very low in density. One of the main challenges in solar physics is...
  • Document
    PARALAJES Women in Astronomy
    PARALAJES Women in Astronomy deals with the role of women in astronomy, picking out important figures in the history of this science until the present day.
    Paralajes_Mujeres_en_Astro.pdf
  • News
    Pedro Duque attends the “official opening” of IACTEC and presides over the Governing Council of the IAC
    The Minister of Science and Innovation this morning presided over the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...