NASA’s and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was launched on November 24, 2021. DART will impact its target, the asteroid Dimorphos, on September 27 at 1:14 am CET, slightly changing its orbit. This is the first planetary defense mission designed to change the course of an asteroid. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez participates in DART’s scientific team.

La setmana que ve se celebra la Nit de la Recerca, una jornada en què tenen lloc diferents activitats, tallers i xerrades de divulgació científica amb l'objectiu d'apropar la investigació a tots els públics.

Des de l'Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) participarem a diferents activitats programades al llarg de la setmana.

La Delegació del CSIC a Catalunya va inaugurar aquest estiu l'exposició Objectes de la recerca a la seu de Barcelona, ​​amb l'objectiu de mostrar la recerca que es duu a terme als diferents centres del CSIC a través d'objectes excepcionals.

A new study by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) makes it possible to represent a pulsars population using graph theory, a technique that had not been applied in this field yet. Researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) present a new approach to study pulsars – neutron stars with high speed of rotation that emit periodic radiation of radio and gamma rays.

Desde ayer lunes y hasta hoy, la presidenta del CSIC Eloísa del Pino ha visitado varios centros del CSIC en Cataluña, en los que se ha reunido con los equipos directivos y con el personal para debatir sobre las necesidades y los retos inmediatos de cada centro.  La han acompañado el vicepresidente de Organización y Relaciones Institucionales, Carlos Closa, y el Delegado Institucional del CSIC en Cataluña, Luis Calvo.

Des de la Delegació del CSIC a Catalunya, en el marc de l'activitat "Objectes de recerca", s'organitza un concurs de Twitter amb el propòsit de dinamitzar el contingut científic d'aquesta activitat a través de les xarxes socials.

Cada objecte exposat comptarà amb el seu propi concurs de fils de Twitter. En l'annex situat al final d'aquestes bases estaran tots els detalls del concurs que es trobi actiu.

Last week, from July 4th to July 15th, the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) held the fifth edition of the Summer School. Every year, our centre organises a Summer School for Master and PhD students over the summer, usually during the month of July.

Students from everywhere have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge, network with researchers and use the experience acquired for their thesis, PhD or post-doc research in the future.

The MELISA project was the winning proposal of an IEEC internal competitive call that sought collaboration between the different Research Units of the Institute while stimulating the achievement of innovative project.

MELISA seeks to develop and manufacture a prototype of a compact, low-power magnetic sensor that implements magnetic field modulation using microelectromechanical resonators (MEMS).

¿Cómo se produce la energía del Sol? ¿Qué ocurre tras la explosión de una supernova? ¿Qué son los púlsares y por qué resultan tan útiles para orientarse en el espacio? ¿Cuándo resolveremos el misterio de la materia oscura? Estas y otras muchas preguntas sobre el cosmos dan vida a Púlsares, un cuento de relojes cósmicos, un cortometraje que combina actores reales con personajes de animación para acercar el conocimiento científico sobre el universo al público juvenil.

L’objecte que inaugura l’exposició és el meteorit Sikhote-Alin, caigut a Rússia fa 75 anys. El meteorit, actualment a l'Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC), estarà exposat des d'avui, Dia internacional de l'asteroide, fins al 2 de setembre i es podrà visitar a la seu del CSIC a Catalunya.

This week, researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) will participate at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2022 in Valencia, Spain. The EAS Meeting has more than 25 years of tradition and it has imposed itself as the largest conference for European astronomy.

Thanks to the data carefully obtained with a suite of instruments and space telescopes, a team of astronomers has been able to model the interior and to estimate the relative sizes of the (metallic) core and (rocky) mantle of the exoplanet Gliese 486 b, discovered in 2021.The analysis, published by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, is so detailed that has allowed investigating things not seen before.

INTEGRAL (The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) is the second medium-sized mission of ESA's Horizon 2000 Science Programme. INTEGRAL was launched from Baikonour/Kazachstan in 2002 and is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy and fine imaging of celestial gamma-ray sources.

La Red de Investigación Bólidos y Meteoritos (SPMN), coordinada por el Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE-CSIC), registró el superbólido SPMN230522 explotando sobre Cataluña, la madrugada del lunes 23 de mayo a las 2h 42m (hora local).

El investigador Josep María Trigo-Rodríguez reconstruyó la trayectoria del superbólido en base a las estaciones más cercanas a la red SPMN.

The European Space Agency (ESA) aims to fly the first space-based observatory dedicated to the study of gravitational waves: the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Last December, LISA left behind Phase A (first stage in the mission lifecycle), in which its feasibility was assessed and the first designs and technologies began to be developed.

An international team of astronomers have resolved the decade-long solar abundance crisis: the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as derived from the analysis of solar oscillations (helioseismology) and the structure derived from the fundamental theory of stellar evolution, which in turn relies on measurements of the present-day Sun's chemical composition.

Aquest congrés tecnològic reuneix alumnes i empreses a l'Escola d'Enginyeria de la UAB el dia 21 d'abril del 2022. L'alumnat podrà assistir a més de 15 conferències, workshops i entrevistes, i passejar-se pels més de 40 estands per conèixer les diferents empreses i centres de recerca que hi participen.

The 5th Institute of Space Sciences Summer School will take place in Barcelona, from July 4 until July 15, 2022. The theme this year is Modified gravities, Inflation and Primordial Perturbations: theory and computing.

Using the largest radio telescope on Earth, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST, in China), an international team has discovered radio pulsations from the system LS I 61 303. This is the first evidence for pulsations from this source at any frequency, and proves the existence of a rotating neutron star in this system.

Using the network of KMTnet telescopes (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network) in Chile, South Africa and Australia, an international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has observed a type Ia supernova since its inception.

Hundreds of international researchers are currently analyzing observations from the one-year Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition.

To commemorate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) will foster an online event called #HowItAllStarted will feature short talks by our researchers Vanessa Graber, Estel Cardellach, Alice Borghese, Clara Dehman and Simranpreet Kaur.

En la investigación se han utilizado datos del Observatorio de Calar Alto (CAHA) que muestran variabilidades en la nebulosa planetaria IC4997. Además de Luis F. Miranda (IAA-CSIC), en el estudio han participado José María Torrelles (ICE-CSIC e IEEC) i Jorge Lillo-Box (CAB/INTA-CSIC).

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional galaxy surveys, creating the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever.