Investigate the Universe with robotic telescopes: new training with the PETeR project
The Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR, for its Spanish initials) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be offering, from next...
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...
JO PULS: “One of the current prime challenges is the evolution of massive binaries”
His interest about the radiative transfer began in a lecture about "Stellar Atmospheres" he attended when he was studying his Physics degree. He was previously...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the woman who discovered pulsars
When Jocelyn Bell Burnell failed an important exam at the age of 10 she did not expect to become one of the most relevant figures in astronomy. Nor when she...
JOSÉ LULL: "The Egyptian astronomers used to observe from the terraces of the temples and palaces"
José Lull knows a lot about the royal Egyptian tombs of the Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period. In fact this was the theme of the doctoral thesis –...
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, share the intricate and ethereal beauty of the iconic...
La astronomía del Egipto antiguo: una perspectiva cultural
Con motivo de la publicación del libro homónimo, publicado por la editorial Springer La editorial Springer publica el libro La astronomía del Egipto antiguo...