Protegiendo el cielo, el entorno y el agua de La Palma
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participó el pasado sábado, 2 de febrero, en el acto de colocación de la placa del Gran Premio de la Unión Europea para...
Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays
Classical novae are cataclysmic binary star systems in which the matter of a companion star is accreted on a white dwarf. Accumulation of hydrogen in a layer...
Public talk: The Milky Way and its impacts with other galaxies
Tomorow, 10th November, at 18:00 the Museum of Science and the Cosmos will offer, free, a lectura with the title “The Milky Way and its encounters with other...
Public version of PORTA, a novel 3D radiative transfer code
The POLMAG research team of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which includes scientists from other international institutions, has released the...
QUIJOTE es un programa de dos telescopios y su batería de instrumentos, instalados en el Observatorio del Teide, dedicados fundamentalmente a la caracterización...
QUIJOTE maps the structure of our Galaxy’s magnetic field
Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented an initial series of 6 scientific...
RAFFAELLA MORGANTI: "The first image of a black hole was an important milestone for astrophysics"
Radioastronomy is one of the branches of observational astrophysics which has experienced considerable growth in recent years. To study the universe at radio...
RAMÓN GARCÍA LÓPEZ: “La instalación del CTA en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos supondrá un gran impacto económico en La Palma”
Por Elena Mora (IAC) La red de telescopios CTA es Ciencia, pero no solo eso”, afirma Ramón García López, investigador principal de CTA ( Cherenkov Telescope...
Rapid quasi-periodic oscillations in a relativistic jet
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) consist of a supermassive black hole fed by the circumnuclear material close to the galaxy center. Around 10% of the AGNs develop a...