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
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit of Mercury — sizes and orbits absent from our solar system. These ‘ super-Earths' and ` sub-Neptunes’ are the galaxy's most common planets, but their formation has been shrouded in mystery. Now, an international team of astronomers has found a crucial missing link. By weighing four newborn planets in the V1298 Tau system, they've captured a rare snapshot of worlds in the process of transforming into the galaxy's most common
Un investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias propone un lenguaje científico común para explicar cómo surgen estructuras organizadas tanto en el Universo como en el cerebro humano, y defiende que las herramientas de la cosmología pueden aplicarse al estudio del cerebro. ¿Qué pueden tener en común la red de galaxias que puebla el Universo y la red de conexiones del cerebro humano? A simple vista, muy poco: sus tamaños, sus componentes y las fuerzas que los rigen no tienen nada que ver. Sin embargo, ambos sistemas comparten algo llamativo: forman estructuras complejas, con
The course, taught by Hannah Thiel, a researcher at the Vigo Quantum Communication Center, brought Institute staff together around the foundations, applications and technological challenges of quantum communications and quantum key distribution. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) held a specialised course on quantum communications on 28 and 29 July, organised at the invitation of the Free Space Optics Communications Lab of the CELESTE project. The training, delivered by researcher Hannah Thiel, from the Vigo Quantum Communication Center at the Universidad de Vigo, took place at
