Topic: Observing tools

  • News
    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...
  • Project
    IACTEC Space
    Development of optical payloads for micro-satellites for Earth observation from low orbits.
  • Document
    Informe sobre el Impacto Socio-Económico del Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT)
    Informe sobre el Impacto Socio-Económico del Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT) en la Isla, elaborado por el profesor del Departamento de Economía, Contabilidad...
    IMPACTO TMT_0.pdf
  • News
    JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”
    The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...
  • Gallery
    La misión CHEOPS, en la que participa el IAC, observa sus primeros exoplanetas
  • News
    MACARENA GARCÍA MARÍN: “Queremos que los científicos del IAC y la comunidad europea en general utilicen el James Webb”
    Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la...
  • News
    MARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”
    Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...
  • Parameter
    Night Sky Background
    The sky brightness (SB) is the routine measurement of the night sky brightness in a moonless night. It is a sky quality parameter that allows for identifying...
  • News
    Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron
    Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...