Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of planetary systems. In this talk, I will present the results of...
Massive pulsating star provides clues to calibrate stellar evolution models
An international collaboration, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), determines with an unprecedented level of precision...
Matter that shows when numbers do not work out and other unknowns
Overlaps at the Frontiers of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics at the XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics The type of matter we are...
MUSE reveals different gas components in planetary nebulae
We present a detailed study of the gas chemical abundances in planetary nebulae (PNe), the final fate of solar-like stars, through high spatial resolution...
Nailing Bennu's colors to the mast: new findings on the origin of this primitive body
Science magazine, in a special collection on asteroid Bennu, has published the results of the analysis of photometric-spectrum color variations on the surface...
An international study, led by researchers at the IAC, reveal unknown details about the nature of a singular type of oscillatory phenomenon in spiral form...
New data about two distant asteroids give a clue to the possible “Planet Nine”
The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), suggest a possible common...
New data obtained about the biggest and one of the most complete Einstein rings
In December 2020 a team from the European Space Agency (ESA) published an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of GAL-CLUS-022058s, the biggest and...
An international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...