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
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y el Área STEAM para el Fomento de las Vocaciones Científicas y la Creatividad de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias anuncian el lanzamiento de un ambicioso proyecto de innovación educativa, Ciencia con PETeR: Investigando el Sistema Solar y los exoplanetas con telescopios robóticos. Esta iniciativa, dirigida a centros de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato del archipiélago, convertirá a las aulas canarias en auténticos centros de investigación astronómica durante el
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), has confirmed the existence of three bodies orbiting the dynamic exoplanetary system TOI-201. They include a super-earth (TOI-201 d), a warm Jupiter (TOI-201 b) and a brown dwarf (TOI-201 c). The paper is published in Science Advances. “The goal was to characterize the TOI-201 planetary system to understand not just what planets are there, but how they interact with each other dynamically,” said Ismael Mireles, a PhD candidate in the UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy and
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit of Mercury — sizes and orbits absent from our solar system. These ‘ super-Earths' and ` sub-Neptunes’ are the galaxy's most common planets, but their formation has been shrouded in mystery. Now, an international team of astronomers has found a crucial missing link. By weighing four newborn planets in the V1298 Tau system, they've captured a rare snapshot of worlds in the process of transforming into the galaxy's most common
