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 comité estudiantil del Premio Cosmos falla el libro ganador de este certamen organizado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) a través del proyecto UNDARK, desvelando el Universo Oscuro desde los Observatorios de Canarias, y con la colaboración de la Fundación CajaCanarias y el apoyo de la Dirección General de Ordenación de las Enseñanzas, Inclusión e Innovación de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias. El fallo se dará a conocer en la gala final del proyecto que se celebrará el próximo mes de junio. El Premio
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
Arianna Di Cintio, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and a lecturer at the University of La Laguna, chaired the organisation of this event, which took place as part of the 17th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA). The symposium attracted more than 75 participants at each of its four sessions, featured over 30 scientific presentations and welcomed six guest experts. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has organised the first symposium of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) dedicated to the computational modelling of galaxies and
