The exoplanets closest to us offer the best opportunities to make a detailed study of their physical properties, including the search for life outside the Solar...
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NewsA system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the sky
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NewsA titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy
Feedback-driven winds from star formation or active galactic nuclei might be a relevant channel for the abrupt quenching of star formation in massive galaxies...
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NewsA week to go deeper into some of the more “ghostly” structures in the Universe
Tenerife will host a meeting of the International Astronomical Union with over a hundred specialists from all over the world, at which there will be discussion...
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NewsAbout metallicity variations in the local Galactic interstellar medium
In this work we discuss and confront recent results on metallicity variations in the local interstellar medium, obtained from observations of H II regions by...
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NewsALLAN SANDAGE: “La materia oscura podría estar constituida por rocas”
Trabajar con Edwin Hubble y medir la constante de Hubble le han elevado al olimpo de la ciencia astronómica. Norteamericano de Iowa, donde nació en 1926...
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NewsAn ionised bubble powered by a proto-cluster at z = 6.5
We show herein that a proto-cluster of Lyα emitting galaxies, spectroscopically confirmed at redshift 6.5, produces a remarkable number of ionising continuum...
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NewsAn ultraviolet wind in a neutron star X-ray binary transient
All disc-accreting astrophysical objects produce powerful disc winds. In compact binaries containing neutron stars or black holes, accretion often takes place...
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NewsAnatomy of the impact of a protostellar jet in the Orion Nebula
An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has uncovered, with an new high degree of detail, the physical and...
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EventAndrej Prsa
Andrej Prsa Villanova University