Left panel: map of the surface brightness of "the Antennae" in emission from ionized hydrogen. The brightest zones are the zones occupied by clusters of massive stars. Right panel: map of the expansion velocity of the bubbles detected in the Antennae, pus
El proyecto educativo “CosmoLab: del aula al Sistema Solar”, desarrollado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y financiado principalmente por el Cabildo de Tenerife, anuncia la apertura de matrícula del nuevo curso “CosmoViaje 2.0: lo que sabemos e ignoramos del Universo” en colaboración con la Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias. Esta iniciativa busca acercar la astronomía a toda la comunidad educativa de Tenerife y fomentar el conocimiento y disfrute de los excepcionales cielos y observatorios de Canarias. CosmoLab persigue promover la cultura científica en el
Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an international scientific team in which research staff from the Instituto de Aastrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) participate. They used the European Very Large Telescope in Chile to monitor the velocity of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The research is published in Nature Astronomy . For the past twenty years, astronomers have known that many massive stars in the metal-rich Milky Way have a
