An international team of scientists, with IAC participation, has discovered that the biggest galaxies in the universe develop in cosmic clouds of cold gas. This finding, which was made possible using radiotelescopes in Australian and the USA, is being published today in the journal Science.

Noemí Pinilla, a researcher at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, has a very close relationship with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canrias (IAC). She studied astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and after obtaining her doctorate she made the jump across the Atlantic to the NASA Ames Research Center as a postdoc. Now, as on previous occasions, she continues to collaborate with the IAC, to be specific in the preparation of a spectroscopic catalogue of asteroids, and studying the ices and the surfaces of the dwarf planets of the Solar System. Even

La próxima semana, la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) decide si lanza en 2020 la misión AIM cuyo objetivo es estudiar al asteroide Dydimos y probar la tecnología necesaria para desviar su trayectoria mediante un impacto. El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa en AIM a través de Javier Licandro, Julia de León y Miquel Serra-Ricart, investigadores que forman parte del grupo científico, además de desarrollar un innovador sistema de comunicaciones ópticas de la nave.

En estos vídeos se recoge la actividad científica que realiza el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, centro de excelencia Severo Ochoa.

Clausurada la Escuela de Invierno del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias sobre la exploración del Sistema Solar

With the presentation of this project yesterday November in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos and the installation of the “Fotomatón cósmico” today in the Teide Observatory this initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is initiated.