The exoplanets closest to us offer the best opportunities to make a detailed study of their physical properties, including the search for life outside the Solar...
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NewsA system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the sky
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NewsA titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy
Feedback-driven winds from star formation or active galactic nuclei might be a relevant channel for the abrupt quenching of star formation in massive galaxies...
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NewsA week to go deeper into some of the more “ghostly” structures in the Universe
Tenerife will host a meeting of the International Astronomical Union with over a hundred specialists from all over the world, at which there will be discussion...
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NewsA workshop in La Palma consolidates scientific collaboration in astronomy between Spain and China
From 25 to 28 July, the workshop "China-Spain collaboration on astronomical high-resolution spectroscopy" will be held in Fuencaliente (La Palma). Its aim is to...
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NewsA “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the CSIC has found evidence of a “kilonomva”...
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GalleryA “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
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NewsAbout metallicity variations in the local Galactic interstellar medium
In this work we discuss and confront recent results on metallicity variations in the local interstellar medium, obtained from observations of H II regions by...
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DocumentActividades para Amigos del IAC
PDF explicativo de las Actividades para Amigos del IAC.
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NewsActivities for Asteroid Day
To celebrate Asteroid Day, which commemorates the impact of the Tunguska Fireball in 1908, several researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias...