Financing logos: Severo Ochoa

  • Talk
    Hunting exoplanets with the ESPRESSO spectrograph
    The search for extrasolar planets is one of the fastest-growing fields of astronomy. This rapid growth was both made possible by the development of...
  • News
    IAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that shouldn’t really exist
    Its very low content of metals, and specifically of carbon, put in question the current models of low mass star formation in the early universe
  • News
    IAC astronomers find one of the first stars formed in the Milky Way
    Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have identified, using the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) a star which is a key to the...
  • Conference
    IAC Dark Energy Survey Data Workshop 2022
    The Dark Energy Survey is one of the largest and deepest photometric surveys to-date and it is considered the predecesor of the Vera Rubin observatory. It...
  • Project
    IAC participation in the development of the HARMONI instrument (SO 2021-2023)
    HARMONI is a first light optical / infrared spectrograph of integral field and high spatial resolution for ELT. Its design and construction is carried out by an...
  • News
    IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies
    A team of researchers from the cosmology group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has obtained one of the most accurate measurements of the masses of...
  • News
    IAC scientists detect a ‘sub-Earth’ orbiting Barnard’s star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun
    The single star nearest to the Sun is called Barnard’s star. A team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has recently detected...
  • News
    IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
    An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
  • Project
    IACTEC - Free Space Optical Communications
    The Free Space Optical Communications Group is focused in develop and research of quantum optical communications equipments and implementations, between...