Dwarf galaxies: key laboratories for the study of dark matter
The journal Nature Astronomy publishes today, in its collection of reviews dedicated to dwarf galaxies, a new article written by Giuseppina Battaglia...
An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered the extremely eccentric orbit of a gas...
Efficient Bayesian inference of the evolving cosmic web from galaxy surveys
We present COSMIC BIRTH (COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models): an algorithm to reconstruct the...
Einstein’s Principle of Equivalence verified in quasars for the first time
According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity gravity affects light as well as matter. One consequence of this theory, based on the Principle of...
El astrofísico Ethan Siegel resalta la calidad del cielo de Canarias
El astrofísico y reconocido divulgador estadounidense Ethan Siegel ha visitado el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) para conocer de primera mano su...
El Centro Nacional de Arte de Tokio expone “100 Lunas cuadradas”
La muestra de nueve imágenes astronómicas obtenidas desde el Observatorio del Teide continúa su recorrido por Japón durante la ceremonia de fundación del...
"Sometimes we ask ourselves what scientific truthfulness certain practices of the elders of the field possess when they use the phenomena of the celestial vault...