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New Earths discovered around a very small star
An international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
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NewsNew edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"With the aim of motivating interest in scientific and technological (STEM) careers among the younger girls, and to publicise the work of the women...
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NewsNew evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thoughtA research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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NewsNew light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scalesScientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...
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NewsNew measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General RelativityAn international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift...
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NewsNew source of lithium production found in the UniverseA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Manchester and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
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NewsNew techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxiesThe group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
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NewsNew technologies in astronomy and intelligent lightingIn the second day of the conference "Preserving the Skies" which is being held on La Palma, opened with lectures related to the quality of the sky in...
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NewsNews about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...