The countdown for the launch of ALISIO-1 has begun
The first Canary Earth Observation Satellite, belonging to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all the pre-launch technical...
The DRAGO camera takes its first images from space
DRAGO, the infrared camera developed by the team at IACTEC-Space of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has seen its “first light”. The instrument, placed...
The DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from space
The DRAGO ( Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) camera, developed entirely by the team of IACTEC-Microsatellites of the Instituto de...
The Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
The European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
The Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
The World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...
The HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way
An international study, using the high-speed HiPERCAM camera, installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), has determined for the first time the mass and...
The IAC and the ULPGC renew their collaboration agreement on medical technology
The Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Rafael Rebolo; the Deputy Director, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón; the Rector of the University of Las...