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...
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...
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for “technosignatures” -evidence for the use of...
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
One of the most interesting questions for astrophysicists for the past few decades is how and when did the first galaxies form. One of the possible answers to...
Initiation of LIOM, the IAC Laboratory for Innovation in Optomechanics
From 13th to 17th of February, in IACTEC, the technical collaboration zone of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the first scientific meeting of the...