Un equipo internacional de astrofísicos ha detectado una señal que correspondería a la huella de los modos gravitatorios del Sol, buscados desde los orígenes de...
Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements...
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
Special feature: "Asteroid 2012 DA14" on the IAC webAstronomical event
On Friday night, 15 February, asteroid 2012 DA14 maked a close approach to our planet. In Spain, it first was seen from the peninsula at 21:00 local time (UT 20...