Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have observed with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a rare gaseous planet, with partly clear skies, and strong signatures of alkali metals in its atmosphere.

Ayer tuvo lugar en el Observatorio del Teide la presentación de un proyecto del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) que durante los próximos 4 años dotará al profesorado de Tenerife de información y material para trasladar la Astronomía a las aulas. A la presentación acudieron, además de personal del IAC, autoridades del Cabildo de Tenerife, quien financia la iniciativa a través del programa Tenerife Innova del área Tenerife 2030, y de la Consejería de Educación y Universidades del Gobierno de Canarias.

Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, support astronomer at the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) will give an outreach lecture on Friday June 1st at 19:00 in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos of Museums of Tenerife, in which she will talk about the details of this great radioastronomical project.

Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have found a neutron star of about 2.3 Solar masses—one of the most massive ever detected. The study was published on the 23rd of May in The Astrophysical Journal and opens a new path of knowledge in many fields of Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics.

The science team of this space probe from the European Space Agency (ESA), led by Nazzareno Mandolesi and Jean Loup Puget, and of which personnel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are participating, has been awarded the Gruber Cosmology Prize 2018, one of the most important recognitions in this field of Astrophysics, which is granted annually from Yale University

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has published a detailed study of the evolution of the nebula surrounding the symbiotic star R Aquarii. The study employed observations from telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, and Chile taken over the course of more than two decades.