Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
One of the most interesting questions for astrophysicists for the past few decades is how and when did the first galaxies form. One of the possible answers to...
Inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope at the Teide Observatory
This new telescope for finding Earth-like planets which may transit some of the smaller cooler stars in the solar neighbourhood joints the SPECULOOS network of...
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...