Asteroid Bennu revealed as an active object by the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
CAPTION: Composite view of particle ejection from the surface of asteroid Bennu on January 6, 2019. This image was produced by combining two exposures taken by...
Astrofísicos del IAC se suman al XXV Aniversario de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía con charlas de divulgación en Canarias
La Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA) cuple estos días su XXV Aniversario y, para celebrarlo, ha organizado una serie de charlas de divulgación por todo el...
Astrofísicos del IAC-ULL desarrollan un código para desvelar la historia de la formación estelar en las galaxias
El método desarrollado permite desentrañar la historia de la formación estelar (HFE) en las galaxias a partir del color y el brillo de sus estrellas...
Astronomers catalogue 40,000 minor bodies in the Solar System
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are part of a team of European astronomers which have managed to classify, using the VISTA...
Astronomers confirm a new “Trojan” asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars
Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense...
Astronomers confirm the existence of a cosmic supervoid that challenges our understanding of dark energy
Research by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has confirmed the presence of a...
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of a primitive star
Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of California San Diego...
Astronomers detected a burst caused by a black hole swallowing a star
The team led by Claudia Gutiérrez from the ICE-CSIC and IEEC has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), at the Roque de...