Observations for surveying the Universe have revealed the first supernova found during the J-PAS project. The CEFCA scientific team located it in a spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, at a distance of about 700 million light years. Its discovery has already been reported to the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The first survey data show 100 000 stars and about 450 000 galaxies. It is the first scientific demonstration of the power of the combination of the JST250 wide-field telescope and its JPCam panoramic camera. J-PAS, led by the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, makes available to the scientific community the first 12 square degrees of the three-dimensional map of the universe that it is carrying out from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre.ars.

Some 40 researchers from Spain, Brazil, China, Colombia and the United States have learned about the first works based on the results of J-PAS survey. The meeting reviewed the projections and ongoing research on the first square degrees of the map of the Universe. In the framework of the XX J-PAS Congress, mapping data were released for the first time to the international scientific community.

The forum was organised by the Space Telescope Institute and was attended by NASA, universities such as Harvard and scientific institutions from all over the world. CEFCA researcher Carlos López explained a technique developed at the centre.

It will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in order to understand the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

Teruel hosts the international scientific meeting of the The Astronomy Infrastructures Network (RIA) to present the first public data of the J-PAS project taken with the JST250 Telescope of the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory.