An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed and completed view yet of the mysterious filaments surrounding the giant galaxy M87. Using new observations from the Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the study reveals how these long, thread-like structures move, evolve, and interact with their galactic environment and the activity of the central supermassive black hole. These findings have just been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. M87: a giant galaxy and its mysterious threads M87, located about 55 million

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

El IAC colabora por segundo año consecutivo con el festival de música y tendencias de Puerto de la Cruz con actividades gratuitas que permitirán a los asistentes descubrir el Observatorio del Teide y observar el Sol con telescopios especializados. El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se suma nuevamente al Phe Festival , que celebra su décimo aniversario los días 5 y 6 de septiembre en Puerto de la Cruz, con un programa de actividades destinadas a acercar la Astronomía y la investigación científica al público general. La iniciativa forma parte de IAC POP, la estrategia de divulgación