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An unusual ultrafaint dwarf galaxy has been discovered, within the framework of a project led by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), in the outer limits of the Andromeda galaxy. Named Pegasus V, it contains very few heavy elements and is likely to be a fossil of the earliest galaxies

An international scientific team, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), has measured with unprecedented precision the mass and radius of Gliese 486 b, a "super-Earth" type exoplanet, discovered in 2021 with the CARMENES instrument at Calar Alto observatory.

Its detailed study has allowed, for the first time, to make solid predictions about the structure and internal composition of a super-Earth.

An international team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) has detected two telluric planets orbiting the nearby star HD 260655.
The discovery has combined data from the TESS space satellite and the CARMENES spectrograph of the 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope.
These two new super-hot-Earths enter the top 10 candidates for the James Webb Space Telescope to study their possible atmospheres.

The Minister of Science and Innovation has highlighted the contribution of her research staff in capturing the first historic image of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy

The Ada Byron Award, with editions in six countries, was created by the Faculty of Engineering to acknowledge the work of women in technology and encourage women in STEM.

The finding, with the participation of the IAA-CSIC, forces a change in the conception of isolated galaxies

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will enable progress to be made in the search for signs of life in the galaxy and in the observation of pulsars, black holes and gravitational waves. The technical coordination of the Spanish participation in the project is carried out by the Institute de Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC)

The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) participates in the study of the most massive young cluster of stars in the Milky Way. This stellar swarm brings together different types of giant stars in different evolutionary phases, and constitutes a first-class laboratory for the study of the formation and evolution of massive stars

UCM and IAA-CSIC co-lead TARSIS, the future instrument for the 3.5 m telescope at Calar Alto. TARSIS has unique characteristics, in particular its capacity to detect near ultraviolet light and its unprecedented field of view

Each year the award recognizes excellence in research in astrophysics

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