On 27 April, the US and European space agencies celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of the SOHO satellite by organising the International Sun-Earth...
On 27 April, the US and European space agencies celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of the SOHO satellite by organising the International Sun-Earth...
Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies
The bulk of stars in galaxy clusters are confined within their constituent galaxies. Those stars do not trace the extended distribution of dark matter well as...
Ionized gas kinematics and massive star formation in NGC 1530
Abstract. We present emission line mapping of the strongly barred galaxy NGC 1530 obtained using Fabry-P´erot interferometry in Hα, at significantly enhanced...
IRSOL and IAC scientists solve a complex paradox in solar physics
In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been recently discovered in the light emitted...
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...
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...