Left panel: map of the surface brightness of "the Antennae" in emission from ionized hydrogen. The brightest zones are the zones occupied by clusters of massive stars. Right panel: map of the expansion velocity of the bubbles detected in the Antennae, pus
Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer, que se conmemora ese 8M, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa en una iniciativa que invita a redescubrir nuestra relación con el universo desde una perspectiva científica y humana de la mano de la entidad iisgood. Bajo el título de ‘Volver a soñar estrellas’, el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos (MCC), del Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros del Cabildo de Tenerife, acogerá una mesa redonda este 12 de marzo a las 17:30 horas con entrada libre y gratuita hasta completar el aforo. En este encuentro, cinco destacadas
Researchers from around the world are taking part in the China–Spain Astronomical Collaboration on High-Resolution Spectroscopy 2025, an event organised by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), the Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology (NIAOT), and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) team. The aim of the conference is to strengthen and consolidate scientific cooperation between China and Spain in the field of high-resolution spectroscopy, one of the key areas for studying stars, galaxies
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, among the tiniest and faintest galaxies known, may hold the key to understanding one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries: the true nature of dark matter. A new study reveals that even a single collision between dark matter particles every 10 billion years — roughly the age of the Universe — is enough to explain the dark matter cores observed in these small systems. These galaxies, which contain only a few thousand stars, are dominated by dark matter and have relatively simple evolutionary histories. That makes them ideal cosmic laboratories for testing theories
