An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), has unveiled a breakthrough explanation for the origin of tiny, jet-like plasma ejections in the solar atmosphere, known as “nanojets.” These elusive events which are recently discovered by the NASA’s solar telescopes are thought to play an important role in heating and sustaining the solar corona at temperatures above one million Kelvin. Why Study Nanojets? For decades, solar physicists have been puzzled by the so-called “coronal heating problem.” While the Sun
El Gobierno de España y el Banco Europeo de Inversiones (BEI) han diseñado un marco financiero que permitiría movilizar recursos para la construcción del Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT) si el consorcio internacional elige La Palma como sede. La propuesta amplía el compromiso anunciado hace un año por la ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, que contemplaba una aportación pública de 400 millones de euros a través del Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación (CDTI). El esquema financiero podría llegar a contar con la participación del BEI y del
The exhibition, opened at the Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha, brings the search for Earth-like planets closer to the public and displays technological components developed by Spanish centres involved in the mission. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in the temporary exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’, a display dedicated to the European space mission PLATO and to one of the major challenges in astrophysics today: the search for and characterisation of habitable Earth-like planets beyond the Solar System. The exhibition, which can be visited until
