Is the Large Magellanic Cloud spiral arm a stable structure?
Some galaxies in the Universe display beautiful and appealing features known as "spiral arms". However, not all galaxies show spiral arms in the same manner...
La directora general, quien midió hace unos años el impacto social y económico de la Gran Ciencia (Big Science), destacó el ambicioso Plan Estratégico del IAC...
James Webb Telescope reveals the possible origin of the mysterious shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula
The first data show there were at least two, and possibly three, more unseen stars that crafted the oblong, curvy shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula. In...
James Webb telescope studies organic molecules near black holes
Research led by the University of Oxford and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in studying, for the first...
Journey to the Big Bang through the lithium of a Milky Way star
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy. The...
JWST MIRI reveals the diversity of nuclear mid-infrared spectra of nearby type 2 quasars
Type 2 quasars (QSO2s) are active galactic nuclei (AGN) seen through a significant amount of dust and gas that obscures the central supermassive black hole and...
La Caixa Foundation awards 5 research grants for doctoral and post-doctoral projects at the IAC
One male and one female researcher received the Junior Leader postdoctoral fellowship and three others received INPhINIT Incoming PhD fellowships. The aim is to...
La Palma telescopes participate in the discovery of a young blazar produced by the merger of two galaxies
An international team of scientists has obtained the first unequivocal detection of a very high speed jet of matter emitted by a galaxy in the process of...