The discovery of Nube, a faint and extended dwarf galaxy, challenges existing astrophysical models. Its unique characteristics might provide new insights into the universe and…
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The compact radio jet in the center of the Teacup galaxy blows a lateral turbulent wind in the cold dense gas, as predicted by the…
Artistic composition of a “soup” of prebiotic molecules around a protoplanetary disc. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) A study led by the researcher Susana Iglesias…
The Spanish-Mexican team has found that the boundary between those objects which destroy lithium and those which preserve it lies at 51.5 times the mass…
This artist’s impression shows the Nu2 Lupi planetary system, which was recently explored by ESA’s exoplanet observer CHEOPS. Credit: © ESA The exoplanetAn exoplanet (or…
Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious…
The image shows the process of nuclear feeding of a black hole in the galaxy NGC 1566, and how the dust filaments, which surround the…
The presence of ionized gas around galaxies with moves with them leaves a trace in the microwave background radiation (left panel) which can be detected…
Artistic composition of a supermassive black hole regulating the evolution of its environment. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) and Dylan Nelson (Illustris-TNG) At the…
The rotation of the Galaxy is not included in the video, only the precession with respect to it. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) An…
In the upper part of the image, the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands) taken in February 2020.…
The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. Credit: Modification…
Artistic impression of the super-Earth in orbit around the red dwarf star GJ-740. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) In recent years there has been…
Artistic visualization of the Sun’s magnetic field in the active region observed by CLASP2. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Every day space telescopes provide…
Image and amplification (in color) of the ultra-diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44 taken with the Hubble space telescope. Credit: Teymoor Saifollahi and NASA/HST At present, the…
Left and center: Image of the region of the sky containing BOSS-EUVLG1, which stands out due to its blue color. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.…
Artist’s conception of waves trapped between the surface of a sunspot (lower image, taken with the GREGOR Fabry-Perot Interferometer) and the transition region (upper image,…
Artistic impression of the constant emission of winds produced during the eruption of a black hole in an X-ray binary. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM…
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…
This illustration shows a nightside view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a dayside where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high…