Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of...
Discovered: the most distant barred spiral galaxy (until now)
An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma
The Teatro Circo de Marte of this municipality of Palma will host a public talk on Wednesday about the new possibilities offered by the Cherenkov Telescope...
Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...
Discovery of relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy
A study led by Anelise Audibert, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), reveals a process that explains the peculiar morphology of the...
Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question
A team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has made, with the Gran...
An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the...
Next Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere...
Dos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luz
Nuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...