Alien Super-Earth Planet Discovered Just 26 Light Years Away – Probably Has an Atmosphere
During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice, and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical…
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Unprecedented Map of the Sun’s Magnetic Field Created by CLASP2 Space Experiment
Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the…
Astrophysicists Solve Mystery of How Dark Matter Is Distributed in Galaxies
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is…
Solved: The Puzzle of the Strange Galaxy Made of 99.99% Dark Matter
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have measure…
Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Verified by New Measurements of the Solar Spectrum
An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift of the Sun,…
Astronomers Find Extreme Galaxy With Intense Ultraviolet Luminosity Comparable to a Quasar
It was found using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands), and…
A Multi-Decade Mystery Settled: Presence of Resonating Cavities Above Sunspots Has Been Confirmed
An international team of researchers, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the existence of resonant cavities above sunspots. These results,…
Astronomers Discover Continuous Infrared Winds During the Eruption of a Stellar Mass Black Hole
Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, such as X-rays or the visible, depending on the phase in…
Astronomical First: Differences Detected Between Discs of Active and Non-Active Galaxies
A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active…
Observed: Giant, Ultra-Hot Planet WASP-76b Where It Rains Iron
Nature magazine is published a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have…
Sequence of Events Which Gave Rise to the Milky Way Revealed
The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very…
Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Galaxy with No Dark Matter
A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic…
Researchers Discover Planet-Forming Collision in Kepler 107 System
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth…
CALIFA Survey Helps Update the Classification of Galaxies
This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way,…
Outer Halo of the Milky Way Contains Stellar Remains of Devoured Galaxies
An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo of…
First Evidence Black Holes Regulate Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
An International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains the…
Researchers Measure the Delay Between the X-Rays and the Visible Light of a Black Hole Jet
Nothing can emerge from a black hole. Yet, in nature, we find ultra-powerful jets of energy that shoot out from the immediate vicinities of growing…
Role of Magnetic Fields in Decelerating the Formation of Massive Stars
A study led by a researcher at the IAC and published today in Nature Astronomy points to the role of the magnetic field as responsible…