The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its inauguration in the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory. During the past decade...
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News10 years of the GTC: Amazing science with an astonishing telescope
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Publishing2000 Special. XII Winter School of Astrophysics "Spectropolarimetry in Astrophysics".
Every year, the Gabinete de Dirección publishes a special edition of IAC Noticias, in Spanish and English, dedicated to the Winter School, where the interviews...
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Publishing2001 Special. XIII Winter School of Astrophysics "Cosmochemistry: the crucible of the elements".
2001 Special. XIII Winter School of Astrophysics "Cosmochemistry: the crucible of the elements". Every year, the Gabinete de Dirección publishes a special...
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News50 years of doctoral theses
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) are organizing the scientific conference “Impulsing Astrophysics in Spain...
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NewsA challenge to models of star-formation truncation in massive galaxies
An international study published in Nature Astronomy, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, suggests that the feedback winds...
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NewsA chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology
Sunspots are intense collections of magnetic fields that pierce through the Sun’s photosphere, with their signatures extending upwards into the outermost...
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NewsA crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
Laser frequency combs (LFCs) are well on their way to becoming the next-generation calibration sources for precision astronomical spectroscopy. This development...
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NewsA distance of 13 Mpc resolves the claimed anomalies of the galaxy lacking dark matter
The claimed detection of a diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter represents a possible challenge to our understanding of the properties of these galaxies and...
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NewsA giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
Surveys have shown that super-Earth and Neptune-mass exoplanets are more frequent than gas giants around low-mass stars, as predicted by the core accretion...