An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) have found a barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, in the early universe, when it was only 15% as old as it is now. The galaxy, ceers-2112, is the most distant barred spiral observed, and its existence poses a challege to the current model of formation and evolution of galaxies. The discovery, made with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is published in the journal Nature. In astrophysics studying the structure of galaxies
An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that could be explained by the gravitational effect of an unknown neighbouring galaxy. Named GTC-1, the satellite galaxy was discovered using ultra-deep images obtained with the OSIRIS camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The finding provides a possible explanation for a puzzle about way the light fades out at the edges of galaxy disks, a mystery that has bothered the
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad con la creación, en 2008, de una comisión específica El Instituto de Astrofísica de Catarís (IAC) reivindica este 8 de Marzo el papel de las instituciones científicas como locomotora de los cambios sociales y demuestra su compromiso con la Igualdad. El IAC fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad, adelantándose a las medidas obligatorias por las distintas leyes. Los primeros pasos en materia de iniciativas orientadas a la igualdad de género se iniciaron en 2008 con la