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Research carried out with the new WEAVE spectrograph, installed on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma), and in whose construction the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found a mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The study was conducted by a European team led by astronomers at University College London (UCL) and Cardiff University, and includes researchers from the IAC. The cloud of iron atoms, described for the first time in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAdvertised on -
Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an international scientific team in which research staff from the Instituto de Aastrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) participate. They used the European Very Large Telescope in Chile to monitor the velocity of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The research is published in Nature Astronomy . For the past twenty years, astronomers have known that many massive stars in the metal-rich Milky Way have aAdvertised on -
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 destacadasAdvertised on