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 infrared data reveal unexpected diversity in hidden quasars
An international team led by Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has used the James Webb Space Telescope...
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 detects the elusive methyl radical for the first time around a dying star
An international study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) reports the first secure detection of the methyl radical (CH₃) in...
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 física que explica el Universo también podría ayudar a entender el cerebro
Un investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias propone un lenguaje científico común para explicar cómo surgen estructuras organizadas tanto en el...