Downflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbrae
Umbral flashes are sudden brightenings commonly visible in the core of some chromospheric lines. Theoretical and numerical modeling suggests that they are...
Dual dust chemistry around evolved stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud
During the final stages of their lives, stars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). AGB...
Dust in the central parsecs of unobscured AGN provides more challenges to the torus
The black holes at the centres of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them...
Dwarf galaxies: key laboratories for the study of dark matter
The journal Nature Astronomy publishes today, in its collection of reviews dedicated to dwarf galaxies, a new article written by Giuseppina Battaglia...
An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered the extremely eccentric orbit of a gas...