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...
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...
Public version of PORTA, a novel 3D radiative transfer code
The POLMAG research team of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which includes scientists from other international institutions, has released the...
Research in the Canary Island observatories, main theme of the recent meeting of their International Scientific Committee
The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its Spanish initials) of the Canary Island Observatories offers the mechanism by which the institutions which...
SAMUEL TING: “If we find complete agreement with the theory, we don’t learn anything”
“I still remember the surface of the Moon seen from the Teide Observatory”. He will never forget the image: Sharp, close up, and brilliant. It was the first...