Gran Telescopio CANARIAS

Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
La Palma

News from GTC Noticias del GTC

In this section you will find news items related to the development and exploitation of the GTC, organized chronologically. The flags indicates used in the notice.

En esta sección encontrará noticias relacionadas con el desarrollo y la explotación del GTC, cronológicamente organizada. La bandera indica la idioma de la noticia.

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2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

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2025

• A great night for hunting gamma-ray bursts
  
• GRB 250314A : A message from the depths of time
  

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2024

• The GTC continues to track asteroid 2024 YR4 to refine the probability of impact in 2032
  
• Scientists confirm the lunar origin of Near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5
  
• El GTC hace seguimiento activo del asteroide que la ONU ha calificado como potencialmente peligroso
  
• The GTC is participating in the first European planetary defence mission
  
• Grantecan helps solve the mystery behind some of the Universe's most powerful radio bursts
  
• Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting ultra-cool star
  
• Astronomers confirm a new "Trojan" asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars
  
• Researchers discover hot subdwarf binary system with shortest known orbital period
  
• Astronomers make a significant advance in our knowledge of the asteroids nearest to the Earth, the Arjunas
  
• Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model
  

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2023

• GTC telescope helps in largely decreasing the threat of 2023 TB2
  
• The first meeting of the major astronomical observatories in Spain is held in La Palma
  
• Two-Faced star exposed
  
• Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
  
• Astronomers discover a new type of stellar object hiding in plain sight
  
• Astronomers reveal the largest cosmic explosion ever seen
  
• Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias plays a key role in the discovery of the ring of the dwarf planet Quaoar
  
• The trans-Neptunian object Quaoar shows a ring that questions a theory used since 1850
  
• Una miniluna acompañará a la Tierra durante las próximas décadas
  

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2022

• Detected a jet of matter emerging from a supermassive black hole as it devours a star
  
• The Rector of the University of La Laguna (ULL) visits the Gran Telescopio de Canarias to give an impulse to the Sustainability Plan for the telescope
  
• The first extensive catalogue of massive stars with low metallicity
  
• An ancient brown dwarf in our cosmic neighbourhood
  
• Possible evidence of planet formation found in the Orion Nebula
  
• Astronomers discover a "black widow" binary star system with the shortest orbital period known
  
• The educational programme "Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos" is starting up again
  
• Astronomers observe potential magnetic flip around a supermassive black hole
  
• Powerful warm winds discovered during a neutron star eruption
  
• Astronomers find in the Milky Way an unusual blue supergiant star travelling at high velocity
  
• IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies
  
• The mystery of the brightest planetary nebulae
  
• Astronomers discover first supernova explosion of a Wolf-Rayet star
  
• A primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky Way
  

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2021

• Distinct pulses captured in the giant magnetic flare from a neutron star
  
• The Visitor Centre at the Roque de los Muchachos and the Starmus Festival: two gateways to the Universe and to the recovery of La Palma
  
• Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
  
• Astronomers discover ancient brown dwarf with lithium deposits intact
  
• Detection of TiO and Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b
  
• High-speed propeller star is fastest spinning white dwarf
  
• Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
  
• The massive star that barely shone upon death
  
• The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified
  
• MAAT: new "eyes" for the OSIRIS instrument of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
  
• Observed for the first time a jet of gas as it emerges from the central star of a planetary nebula
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universe
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias observes Beethoven's musical universe
  

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2020

• A mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found
  
• Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India, Spain for scientific and technical collaborations in astronomy
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
  
• Astronomers find the first galaxy whose ultraviolet luminosity is comparable to that of a quasar
  
• TESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
  
• All-clear in space - Cuddling inside a nebula does not have to end in a catastrophe
  
• IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
  
• La Palma telescopes participate in the discovery of a young blazar produced by the merger of two galaxies
  
• Scientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary system
  

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2019

• El colapso de una estrella bate los records en producción de fotones de muy alta energía
  
• Astronomers discover a giant black hole that challenges current models of stellar evolution
  
• The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened
  
• Free access to the largest catalogue of objects observed by Grantecan
  
• Violent flares in the centre of a black hole system
  
• EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN
  
• A milisecond pulsar beating in unison at optical and X-ray energies
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
  
• A "gold mine" is detected in a collision of two distant stars
  
• 10 years of the GTC: Amazing science with an astonishing telescope
  
• 10 years bringing Astrophysics to the school community of La Palma
  
• Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole with GTC
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids
  
• A system of globular clusters in the disc of a galaxy detected for the first time
  
• The HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way
  
• Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
  
• GTC discovers a new Einstein cross
  
• Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
  
• ¿Qué hace una estrella como tú en un sitio como este?
  
• The Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
  
• GRANTECAN opens its doors to its observing nights
  
• Observations of a rare hypernova complete the picture of the death of the most massive stars
  
• A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
  
• A new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
  

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2018

• An amateur astronomer discovers a dwarf galaxy
  
• Aluminium oxide found in an Ultra Hot Jupiter
  
• The only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzed
  
• OTELO reveals a population of "ghost galaxies" in the Universe
  
• One of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealed
  
• Tellurium is detected in one of its places of origin
  
• Missing intergalactic material found
  
• Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets
  
• Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanet
  
• Researchers from the UPC and the IAC discover one of the most massive neutron stars
  
• The most distant star ever observed
  
• Grantecan and Transvulcania, together at the tenth edition
  
• GTC studies the origin of the neutrino detected in the “Ice Cube” in the South Pole
  
• Call for applications opens for the ERASMUS+ project
  
• IAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that should not really exist
  
• CanariCam studies the polarization produced by the gas and dust around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
  
• News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
  

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2017

• Descubiertas las estrellas masivas más pobres en metales conocidas hasta la fecha
  
• NEFER: a new instrument for the GTC (IAC/UNAM)
  
• IAC astronomers find one of the first stars formed in the Milky Way
  
• Black holes' magnetism surprisingly wimpy
  
• Propiedades de un emisor Lyman alfa poco masivo a z = 5.75
  
• Una nebulosa de gas ionizado de 100 kpc asociada con el cuásar "Teacup"
  
• Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
  
• First light for MEGARA on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
  
• Discovered one of the brightest galaxies known
  
• Hidden Black Holes Revealed?
  
• Revealed the morphology of a galaxy hidden by its bright nucleus
  
• MEGARA llega al GTC!!
  
• SN2015bh: the end of a star or an "impostor" supernova?
  
• New data about two distant asteroids give a clue to the possible Planet Nine
  
• Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
  

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2016

• Astrofísicos de la Universidad de Jaén usan el GTC para estudiar un microcuásar
  
• Agreement between the GTC and the National Astronomical Observatories of China
  
• Light shed on a superluminous supernova which appears to have exploded twice
  
• The first image of a new gaseous component in a planetary nebula
• First light with EMIR on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
• The GTC obtains the deepest image of a galaxy from Earth
• The EMIR spectrograph is now installed on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
• Descubrimiento de estrellas Wolf-Rayet en M81 usando datos de GTC/HST
• A new "Einstein ring" discovered with GTC data
• EMIR, a new instrument for the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, moves to La Palma today
• El IAC firma un acuerdo con el Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de China
• Astrophysicists from the IAC discover an intense wind in the neighbourhood of a black hole
• The dark side of the fluffiest galaxies
• A famous supermassive black hole spied on with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
• El sistema criogénico de MEGARA listo para su envío a la UCM
• University of Florida will use GTC for LIGO experiment follow up

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2015

• Estudian la historia de la galaxia Andrómeda a través de sus cadáveres estelares
• No elevation restrictions due to Dome shutter at GTC
• Fifth "Science with the GTC" Meeting Summary: (Day 1) (Day 2) (Day 3)
  
• The GTC finds a mysterious microquasar in the galaxy M81
• How is a galaxy fed?
• CIRCE begins its scientific operation
• EMIR final steps before the acceptance tests
• El Rey observa con el Gran Telescopio Canarias
• Fifth "Science with the GTC" Meeting (Puebla, Mexico)
• First Light of HORS instrument at GTC
• A Super-Jupiter in view
• First EURONEAR NEA discoveries from La Palma
• First Light of a "Guide Star"
• El abrazo mortal de las estrellas
• Una historia diferente
• GTC Image Calendar 2015 (A3 size)

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2014

• First light for CIRCE
• Special Meeting "Science with the GTC" at EWASS2015
• Confirmación de la existencia de una población de cuásares "tranquilos"
• Episodios Estelares
• GTC infrared instruments at 'boxes'
• GTC Dome shutter functionality improvement
• First five years of science with GTC
• El GTC cumple cinco años produciendo ciencia
• Llamaradas estelares: al calor de las fulguraciones
• Un breve (pero intenso) magnetismo
• MEGARA: Un nuevo instrumento para el GTC que desarrolla la UCM
• Cómo sobrevivir a una dieta inestable

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2013

• OSIRIS Multi-Object Spectroscopy: final tests
• Lucha de titanes: dos agujeros negros en acción
• Astronomers puzzle over newfound asteroid that acts like a comet
• El GTC observa por primera vez un cometa de cinturón principal dividido en cuatro fragmentos
• Las supernovas que jugaban al escondite
• GTC captures a SuperNova in galaxy M74
• Nasmyth-B Acquisition and Guiding unit repair
• Tadeo Jones, de aventura en el GTC
• El asteroide que quería ser cometa
• A review of GTC's future instrumentation plans
• Planes de la instrumentación futura de GTC
• Instrument cooling problems with CanariCam
• Una enorme factoría de estrellas del universo primitivo
• A step closer to Multi-Object Spectroscopy with OSIRIS
• GTC observes asteroid 2012 DA14
• MEGARA passes its preliminary design review
• El Gran Telescopio Canarias capta cómo le nace cola a un asteroide
• Descubren cuándo le nació la cola al asteroide P/2012 F5 (Gibbs)
• The first tests with OSIRIS multi-object spectroscopy
• Imagenes en banda z de enanas Y con GTC/OSIRIS

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2012

• ¿Cómo eran las primeras estrellas del universo?
• El Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) permite observar detalles antes nunca vistos de varias estrellas y enanas marrones en el cúmulo de sigma Orionis
• Observaciones con el GTC de dos enanas blancas ponen a prueba la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein
• Más de cien investigadores se reúnen en Granada para debatir sobre el futuro del estudio de las galaxias
• A new set of OSIRIS filter for common use
• CanariCam y el GTC observarán en directo el nacimiento de estrellas y planetas
• El GTC incorpora dos nuevos rotadores, claves para la instalación de nuevos instrumentos de observación

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2011

• El GTC empleará la cámara ultrasensible más rápida del mundo
• EMIR taking shape
• Kick-off for the MIRADAS instrument
• Changes in FITS keywords
• A first step for CanariCam science commissioning
• OSIRIS Users Manual available
• Kick-off for the MEGARA instrument
• Astronauts visit GTC
• OSIRIS cryostat repair status
• A fish-eye's view of the sky above the GTC
• Last call for proposals for programs ESO-GTC
• Preparing GTC for CanariCam
• Discovery of a high-z protocluster with tunable filters: the case of 6C0140+326 at z = 4.4
• OSIRIS, un GPS para localizar estallidos de rayos gamma en el universo
• GRB100614A y GRB100615A: two extremely dark GRBs
• An extremely luminous outburst at the center of a distant galaxy
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• Spectroscopy of compact stellar clusters in M81
• Descubren un agujero negro de más de cinco veces la masa del Sol
• Evidence for a black-hole in the X-ray transient XTE J1859+226
• The unusual γ-ray burst GRB 101225A from a helium star/neutron star merger at redshift 0.33
• El GTC observa la infancia de alguna de las galaxias más masivas del universo
• La 'rápida' caída en espiral de una estrella a un agujero negro
• El GTC traza el cartografiado más profundo del cielo realizado hasta la fecha
• El GTC observa fósiles astronómicos
• Congresos: El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS pone en común sus resultados científicos por primera vez
• El GTC asiste al nacimiento de una estrella
• Arranca el IV Congreso "Ciencia con el Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)"
• El GTC contribuye a resolver el enigma de la densidad de las galaxias en los orígenes del universo
• Un investigador del IAC halla los grupos de galaxias compactos más lejanos jamás detectados
• El GTC en manos de un astrónomo aficionado por primera vez

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2010

• New grisms for OSIRIS
• Progress with the commissioning of CanariCam
• More on the photometric zeropoints of OSIRIS
• MasterFlats for broad-band imaging with OSIRIS
• Commissioning of CanariCam
• Status of the GTC dome
• Current status of CanariCam
• Status of the dark current of OSIRIS
• New signal-to-noise calculator for OSIRIS
• El instrumento OSIRIS de GTC determina, por primera vez, la presencia de potasio en planetas fuera del Sistema Solar
• UF astronomers win grant to work on optical telescope
• Water-ice driven activity on comet P/2010 A2?
• El GTC da a luz una nueva técnica para la observación de planetas
• Characterizing extrasolar planets with OSIRIS photometry
• Dos de los mayores telescopios del mundo observan la activación de un cuásar por un encuentro entre galaxias
• El GTC observa un exótico magnetar
• Cometa P/2010 A2
• The tertiary mirror re-aluminized

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2009

• Astrónomos del IAA estudian un posible planeta enano con el Gran Telescopio Canarias
• First light for CanariCam
• Reflectivity of the GTC primary mirror
• Status update on OSIRIS
• Problems with the dark current of the CCD of OSIRIS
• La Última reliquia de la Vía Láctea
• Optical observations of SGR 0418+5729
• Astrónomos del IAA estudian un posible planeta enano
• Imagen más profunda de la zona donde reside una posible estrella de neutrones en la Vía Láctea
• El GTC comienza a producir sus primeros datos científicos

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2008

• El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS completa su espejo primario
• ¿Sodes vos Strelero?
• El GTC y la cosmología

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2007

• Los nombres de los segundos
• La vista de CIRCE
• El Gran Telescopio de Canarias se prepara para recibir su primera Luz el próximo viernes
• Llega a La Palma el espejo secundario del GTC
• Controlando el tiempo II… y "gepeseando"
• Ajustar el telescopio
• "Science must go on"
• Primera Luz
• Blas Cabrera Workshop on Using the GTC and its Day One Instruments

Last modified: 07 April 2025