First results of Herschel and the HerMES extragalactic survey.
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory was launched on 14 May 2009. After a short commissioning and performance verification period, the science demonstration...
First spectra of two extreme trans-Neptunian objects obtained with the GTC support the “Planet Nine” hypothesis
The so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) are orbiting the Sun at heliocentric distances larger than 150 AUs, and their discovery a decade ago was...
Formation of fullerenes in hydrogen-rich environments.
Thanks to the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, bucket loads of large carbon molecules, the so-called fullerenes (C 60), have been found around dying stars in the...
Fullerenes in the IC 348 star cluster of the Perseus molecular cloud
We present the detection of fullerenes C 60 and C 70 in the star-forming region IC 348 of the Perseus molecular cloud. Mid-IR vibrational transitions of C 60...
Galactic superwinds present a filament-like structure, with strong X ray emissions, which could not be explained until now. Using hydrodynamic calculations, it...
Galaxy fusion provides an explanation for asymmetrical stellar velocities in elliptical galaxies
Using the IAC's Beowulf group of computers and the National Supercomputing Centre's Mare Nostrum, an IAC team has simulated the process of galaxy fusion by...
The aim of the project is to contribute to the characterisation of the spectral energy distribution of the coolest brown dwarfs discovered to date, the Y dwarfs...
HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. V. A super-Earth on the inner edge of the habitable zone of the nearby M-dwarf GJ 625
We report the discovery of a new super-Earth orbiting the nearby cool dwarf star GJ 625 in the inner edge of the habitable zone. This result has been achieved...
Accretion disc winds are observed in accreting black holes across the full range of masses. In stellar-mass black holes, X-ray winds have been recently...