On the magnetic nature of quiet-Sun chromospheric grains
CaII Kgrains, i.e., intermittent, short-lived (about 1 minute), periodic (2-4 minutes), pointlike chromospheric brightenings, are considered to be the...
One of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealed
A study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained...
Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf
In the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
OTELO reveals a population of “ghost galaxies” in the Universe
Thanks to the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Ganarias (GTC) it has been possible to make the deepest survey of galaxies to date (OTELO) and the...
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...