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Wide-Eyed Telescope Finds Its First Transiting Planets Around Distant Stars (based on SuperWASP observations).
RAS Press Release PN 06/36, 25th September 2006. Available formats: TXT (local copy) | HTML.
Presentado en la Asamblea de la Unión Astronómica Internacional el estudio “Millennium Galaxy Catalogue”. IAC Press Release, 30th August, 2006. Available formats: HTML.
Cosmic stocktake reveals what's left of big bang. Press Release from The Australia National University, 18th August, 2006. Available formats: HTML.
A Matter of Darkness. Press Release from St Andrews University, 18th August, 2006. Available formats: HTML.
Astron Maakt Laser Gestuurde Telescoop. ASTRON Press Release, 25th April, 2006. Available formats: HTML | Local HTML copy.
Slow Motion Mergers in Galaxy Clusters Provide Conditions to Transform Spirals to Smooth Disks. RAS Press Release, 5th April, 2006 (issued at NAM 2006). Available formats: HTML | TXT.
Identificado un Pariente muy Cercano de Plutón. IAC press release, 19 January, 2006. Available formats: HTML.
Utrechtse astronomen bouwen instrument om exoplaneten direct waar te nemen. University of Utrecht will build a high-accuracy polarimeter for direct explanetary detection at the WHT
NOVA Press Release, 22 December. Available formats: TXT.
SWIRE: Piecing Together the Universe's History with Wide-Infrared Eyes, using data from Spitzer Space Telescope and the Isaac Newton Telescope.
Spitzer Space Telescope Image Release, 27 October.
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A SWIRE Picture is Worth Billions of Years, using data from Spitzer Space Telescope and the Isaac Newton Telescope.
Spitzer Space Telescope Image Release, 27 October.
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Secretos de la Vía Láctea
. IAC Press Release, 28 September.
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New star survey sheds light on the evolution of galaxies using INT's WFC. Imperial College Press Release, 20 September.
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Black Hole Blows Bubble Between the Stars.
RAS Press Release, 10 August 2005. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
Voracious Black Holes Hide Their Appetite in Dusty Galaxies.
PPARC Press Release, 4 August 2005. Available formats: TXT | PDF | HTML.
Superwind Discovered Spreading Star Dust across the Universe.
PPARC Press Release, 14 July 2005. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
Los Observatorios del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
seguirán la evolución del impacto de la nave Deep Impact
en el núcleo del cometa 9P/Tempel 1. IAC Press Release, 28 June 2005. Available formats: HTML.
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New Star Clusters, using the INT WFC. RAS National Astronomy Meeting Press Release, 2 April 2005. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
Seeing the invisible - first dark galaxy discovered?. PPARC Press Release, 23 February 2005. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
Scholieren gaan waarnemen met Isaac Newton Telescoop. NOVA Press Release, 20 January 2005. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
ING astronomer observes Dying star creates sculpture of gas and dust. ESA
Press Release, 9 September 2004. Available formats: HTML.
ING astronomer observes Los últimos latidos de las estrellas. IAC
Press Release, 7 September 2004. Available formats: HTML.
La ministra de educación y ciencia visitará el Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) y presidirá la reunión del consejo rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). IAC Press Release, 23 July 2004. Available formats: HTML.
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias names a new nebula “Príncipes de Asturias” (Spanish crown princes). The planetary nebula PNG 126.62 + 1.32 was observed using the WFC on the INT. IAC Press Release, 18 June 2004. Available formats: HTML.
A Star is Born. LIRIS captures the impetuous birth
of a star in the Orion constellation. IAC Press Release, 26 April 2004. Available formats: HTML.
“SuperWASP” will detect thousands of extrasolar planets. IAC Press Release, 16 April 2004. Available formats: HTML.
SuperWASP begins the search for thousands of new planets. PPARC Press Release, 16 April 2004. Available formats: HTML | TXT.
Inauguración del proyecto “SuperWASP”. IAC Press Release, 15 April 2004. Available formats: HTML.
Andromeda Galaxy - Cannibal on our doorstep?. 2004 NAM Press Release, 31 March 2004. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
New Instruments give UK Astronomers Control of the Time Domain. RAS Press Release, 9 February 2004. Available formats: HTML.
Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets On Deathbed. PPARC Press Release, 26 January 2004. Available formats: HTML | TXT.
Viaje al Centro de las Galaxias. Un Científico del IAC confirma un mecanismo para "alimentar" a los agujeros negros de los centros galáticos. IAC Press Release, 9 December 2003. Available formats: HTML.
Los telescopios del Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos reciben unas 3.000 visitas en la Jornada de Puertas Abiertas del pasado 15 de agosto. IAC Press Release, 18 August 2003. Available formats: HTML.
Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas en el Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos. IAC Press Release, 28 July 2003. Available formats: HTML.
School Students set to Discover Exploding Stars in Distant Galaxies, using images from the Isaac Newton Telescope. NSO Press Release, 24 June 2003. Available formats: HTML | HTML (press release at NSO web site).
WASP prepares to search for a thousand new planets. PPARC Press Release, 28 May, 2003. Available formats: TXT | HTML.
Congreso Internacional de Astrofísica en La Palma. IAC Press Release, 22 May, 2003. Available formats: HTML.
Acuerdo entre el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el Grupo de Telescopios Isaac Newton. IAC Press Release, 6 May, 2003. Available formats: HTML.
Astronomers find "naked" galaxies, devoid of dark matter. NAM Press Release, 9 April, 2003.
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Stellar Census Detects More Red and Brown Dwarfs. NAM Press Release, 9 April, 2003.
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LIRIS: Lo
que el ojo no ve. First light on LIRIS, a new infrared
spectrograph and imager for the WHT. IAC
Press Release, 21 February 2003.
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Ro Cassiopeiae: la estrella que
anunció la entrada en el nuevo milenio con una espectacular
explosión, discovery made from data obtained using UES on the WHT. IAC Press Release, 8 January 2003. Available
formats: TXT | HTML.
ONE RING TO ENCOMPASS THEM ALL: A giant
stellar structure surrounding the Milky Way, from INT WFC data. RAS Press Release, 6 January 2003. Available
formats: TXT.
PRESTIGIOUS EUROPEAN AWARD FOR GAMMA-RAY
BURST RESEARCH TEAM. ING telescopes have played a crucial role in this
research. RAS Press Release, 11 December 2002. Available
formats: TXT.
100 Photographs in the Blink of an Eye.
PPARC Press Release, 24 July 2002. Available
formats: TXT | HTML.
Astronomers Ponder the Nature of an Ultracool Object in Orion, using
INGRID on the WHT.
Institute for Astronomy (University of Hawaii)
Press Release 20 May 2002.
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Global Telescope to Observe Ringing Star. Armagh Observatory Press Release, 16 May 2002.
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Cannibalistic Stars hold clue to Big
Bang. PPARC Press Release 27/02, 13 May 2002.
Available formats: Text | HTML (link at PPARC web
site).
Flares Illuminate the Secret Life of a
Quiescent Black Hole. RAS Press Release NAM9, 5 April 2002.
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ESA's
new camera will revolutionise the way astronomers observe the
Universe. ESA Press Release, 10 January. Available formats: HTML.
A New Connection Between Supermassive Black
Holes and the Galaxies in which They Reside. IAC Press Release, 20
November 2001. Available formats: HTML.
Astronomers find our Galaxy's "sister" is a
cannibal, from observations carried out using the Isaac Newton Telescope. AAO Press Release, 4 July, 2001.
Available formats: TXT.
Discovery
of a Black Hole in Milky Way's Halo from observations carried out
using the William Herschel Telescope. IAC Press Release, 5 April, 2001.
Distant Galaxies are
in the Red. Observations were carried out using the William Herschel and
the Isaac Newton Telescope. RAS Press Release PN 01/23, 2 April,
2001. Local copy of the press release.
Studying
Andromeda in the Dark. RAS Press
Release PN 01/11 (NAM4), 29 March 2001.
Astronomers
Using the Isaac Newton Telescope Find Evidence for Milky Way Galactic Cannibalism. IAC Press Release, 9 March,
2001.
ING astronomer
zooms in on bar of NGC 2903 using the HST. HST Press Release, 27 February,
2001.
Observations of a Completely Dark Galaxy from
the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide Field Survey
help astronomers to predict that these galaxies may outnumber the normal
galaxies. RAS Press
Release PN 01/01, 4 January, 2001. Picture of UGC
10214 galaxy interacting with dark galaxy.
Birth of
Lonely Giant Planets Observed by the Isaac Newton Telescope. IAC Press
Release, 5 October, 2000. Local copy: HTML.
New Evidence that Galaxies Formed Early in the
History of the Universe.
IAU General Assembly Press Release, 5 August 2000.
Southampton astronomers find 10 billion billion
billion megaton bomb. RAS Press Release 00/105, 20 July 2000. Press release at RAS.
Astronomers
determine nearby blue supergiant stars masses (in Spanish), from observations
carried out using the INT. IAC Press
Release, 5 June 2000.
The Milky
Way was Formed in a Record Short Time (in Spanish). This conclusion was reached after
observing 52 globular clusters in our Galaxy using the Jacobus Kapteyn
Telescope and others. IAC Press Release, 15
March 2000.
Old white
dwarf may hold the key to dark matter, the Institute of Astronomy (IoA), Cambridge reports. Distance measured using the
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope and photometry was obtained using the William
Herschel Telescope. 6 January 2000.
IAC
researchers find young blue stars in a dwarf elliptical galaxy of the
Local Group, thanks to
observations carried out with the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope among other
telescopes. IAC Press Release, 21 December 1999.
NEW PLANET FOR THE NEW
MILLENNIUM. PPARC Press Release, 16 December
1999. PDF | Gzipped
Postscript.
First
Scientific Results from the Fibre Optics Instrument INTEGRAL set up at the William
Herschel Telescope (in
Spanish). INTEGRAL was built by the Instituto de Astrofísica de
Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the Royal
Greenwich Observatory (RGO) and ING. IAC Press
Release, 19 February 1999.
Durham Team Discover
a Cosmic Flow of Galaxies across One Billion Light Years of the
Universe, partly based on observations taken by the ING telescopes. University of Durham Press
Release, 28 January 1999.
SUPERNOVA
COSMOLOGY PROJECT A WINNER. Observations of distant supernovas using the
ING telescopes and others around the world come to important cosmological
conclusions, highlighted by the journal "Science" as the Breakthrough of the
Year for 1998. RAS Press Release
PN 98/29, 18 December 1998.
Leonid Meteor
Shower Springs Early Surprise. Astronomers observing with CoCAM camera witnessed a very high activity of the
Leonids Meteor Shower on 16-17 November. RAS Press Release PN 98/24, 18 November
1998.Alan Fitzsimmons (Queen's
University Belfast) took some nice pictures. Background information
about the
Leonids can be found in this another RAS press release.
The
less massive Brown Dwarf ever observed orbits around a star (in Spanish), discovered by IAC astronomers using the
William Herschel telescope among others. IAC Press Release, 12 November
1998.
Director of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes,
La Palma. Joint Press Release from PPARC
and NWO, 25
June 1998.
University of Wyoming Astronomers Identify Coldest Known
Star, thanks to observations obtained with the William Herschel
telescope and others. University of Wyoming
Press Release, 23 April 1998.
UK astronomers
find faint objects beyond Pluto, thanks to observations carried out
with the Isaac Newton Telescope. Press Release
PN 98/07 (NAM 4) of the Royal Astronomical
Society (RAS), 27 March 1998.
Distant Exploding Stars Foretell Fate Of The
Universe: It Will Expand Forever. Observations were carried out
with the William Herschel and Isaac Newton Telescopes among others. Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory Press Release, 8 January 1998.
