El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participa en el descubrimiento de una súper-Tierra congelada, alrededor de la estrella de Barnard, en el segundo sistema solar más cercano a nosotros.
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This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.
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The ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership "Per Aspera Ad Astra Simul", between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has helped solve the mystery of how galaxies in the early Universe form dust.Advertised on -
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated in the discovery of a frozen super-Earth around Barnard’s star, in the second nearest solar system to ourselves.Advertised on -
An international team, led by researchers from the IAC, used data from the ESA satellite Gaia to measure the motion of 39 dwarf galaxies. These data gives information on the dynamics of these galaxies, their histories and their interactions with the Milky Way.Advertised on -
A joint observational campaign with the MAGIC telescopes at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma) and the VERITAS array at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (Tucson, Arizona), has detected a new source emitting very-high-energy gamma rays from an unusual system consisting of a massive star and a pulsar. The study has just been published in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters.Advertised on -
An international team, led by researchers from the IAC, used data from the ESA satellite Gaia to measure the motion of 39 dwarf galaxies. These data gives information on the dynamics of these galaxies, their histories and their interactions with the Milky Way.Advertised on