Los ponentes de las acciones formativas, Nayra Rodríguez Eugenio (arriba) y Alfred Rosenberg (abajo), durante charlas y talleres impartidos en cursos de formación de profesorado previos. Crédito: IAC.
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha inaugurado esta mañana la exposición “El Observatorio Observado”, una muestra artística realizada por el Taller de Artes Plásticas Giro-Arte, perteneciente a la Sociedad Insular para la Promoción de las Personas con Discapacidad (Sinpromi S.L.). El acto ha contado con la participación del director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet ; la responsable del equipo de caracterización atmosférica de los Observatorios de Canarias y promotora de esta iniciativa, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón ; el consejero delegado de Sinpromi S.L., Adal García Pueyo ; la
Clues to the first stars may be hiding much closer to home than expected. An international team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected potential chemical traces of the very first stars in the Universe within a neighboring galaxy. The setting for this discovery is NGC 1277, a well-known "relic" galaxy. While normal galaxies grow and transform by merging with others throughout their history, this compact system formed most of its stars very quickly in the early Universe and became frozen in time. Acting as a cosmic time capsule, this galaxy is perfect for
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy’s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before. The results were published today in the journal Nature Astronomy . The Milky Way today is a massive spiral galaxy home to hundreds of billions of stars. However, our galaxy wasn’t always so large; it has grown by
