Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos de la Universidad de Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña (IEEC), have carried out the largest observational study to date on massive runaway stars including rotation and binarity in the Milky Way. This work, recently published in Astronomy & Astrophysics , sheds light on how these stellar “fugitives” are launched into space and what their properties reveal about their intriguing origins. Runaway stars are stars that travel through
The new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has achieved its first scientific results, with four articles published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and one more accepted for publication. The data confirm its ability to detect Earth-like planets in the infrared for the first time with a precision better than one metre per second. One of the papers, led by IAC researcher Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, confirms the presence of a
Especialistas abordarán el impacto de la iluminación artificial excesiva y sus efectos sobre la astronomía, la salud humana y la biodiversidad El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y SEO/BirdLife Canarias celebran la conferencia " Contaminación Lumínica: Una Amenaza Silenciosa", una jornada clave para la protección del medio ambiente y el patrimonio científico del archipiélago. La ponencia estará a cargo de Federico de la Paz, técnico del IAC, y Yarci Acosta de Seo/Birdlife, quien desgranará los graves riesgos que el uso ineficiente y descontrolado de la luz artificial supone para la
