A gamma ray burst observed in unprecedented detail
A study which will be published tomorrow in Nature magazine and in which IAC researchers have participated, with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER...
A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
An international team of astrophysicists that includes researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has...
A huge star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy formation theoriesA full report on this research is published in the latest issue of the journal Nature
A study, with the participation of the IAC, has detected the most distant known galaxy with explosive star formation that began its production when the Universe...
A huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster
An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a very large, but thin...
A huge superbubble observed in an interacting galaxy
Research led by Artemi Camps, who started it while he was studying for his doctorate in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna...
For the past weeks telescopes all over the world have been pointed at V404 Cygni where a black hole is gobbling up the mass of its neighbouring star. The Gran...
A large number of satellite galaxies could be dark INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN R. MAJEWSKI
Some year ago, astronomers suggested the existence of huge regions of the Universe made up of a kind of matter that cannot be seen, touched or smelt, but which...
A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...