An international team, including a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has obtained an incredible image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), revealing the nebula's spectacular dusty rings in unprecedented detail. NGC 1514 was one of the first nebulae to be studied by astronomer William Herschel, who noted that when viewed through his telescope (the biggest in the World at the time) the nebula looked like a fuzzy cloud somewhat similar in appearance to one of his other discoveries: the planet Neptune. The new images acquired
The discovery, made in collaboration between the IAC Solar System Group and Light Bridges, reveals the rotation period of comet 3I/ATLAS The Two-metre Twin Telescope (TTT) has made a pioneering discovery in astronomy: the first detection of a jet of gas and dust and its periodic modulation in an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS. The study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, provides the first evidence of localised activity from an interstellar nucleus, offering unique insight into the nature of a celestial body that formed outside our Solar System. An extraordinarily normal
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) estrena este viernes, 7 de noviembre, a las 21:30 horas su nuevo programa de radio de divulgación científica en La Radio Canaria, del grupo Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC) bajo el nombre de Soñando Estrellas. El espacio tendrá una periodicidad semanal todos los viernes a esa hora, aunque también podrá disfrutarse en medios digitales. Esta acción forma parte del acuerdo de colaboración entre la entidad científica dirigida por Valentín Martínez Pillet, y el director de La Radio Canaria, Mayer Trujillo; y su arranque se inscribe en las actividades