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    Mapping the Magnetic Field in the Chromosphere of Solar Active Regions
    The magnetic field in the solar chromosphere plays a key role in the heating of the outer solar atmosphere and in the build-up and sudden release of energy in...
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    MARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"
    Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
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    MARIA BERGEMANN: “Miniscule changes in physical properties of late-type stars may have radical effects on the emitted radiation spectra”
    Maria Bergemann, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), is one of the invited professors at the XXIX Canary Islands...
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    MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: “We must bring literature closer to the stars!”
    The Nobel Laureate for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, accompanied by his partner Isabel Preysler, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
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    MARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”
    Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...
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    Más de 1.600 personas visitaron el Observatorio del Teide en sus Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas 2017
    Las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas 2017 del Observatorio del Teide (Izaña, Tenerife), celebradas el pasado viernes 23 y sábado 24 de junio, tuvieron una afluencia...
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    Massive collision in the planetary system Kepler 107
    Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth to produce the Moon. An...
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    MATS CARLSSON: “In astrophysics we cannot perform experiments so we just have to extract information from the light the star emits”
    Professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo (Norway) and director of the center of excellence "Rosseland Center for Solar...
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    Matt Mountain meets young IAC talents during the STARMUS festival
    In the framework of the STARMUS festival, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias received the visit of Dr. Matt Mountain, current president of the Association...