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 edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"
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NewsNew insights into the puzzle of strong CO absorptions in massive early-type galaxies
Puzzling properties of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) emerge when studying their spectra at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. Massive ETGs show strong CO...
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NewsNew light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
Scientists 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 Relativity
An 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 techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies
The 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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NewsNews about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
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NewsNightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet
Ultrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth’s insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories...
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NewsNon-grey dimming events of KIC 8462852 from GTC spectrophotometry
We report ground-based spectrophotometry of KIC 8462852, during its first dimming events since the end of the Kepler mission. The dimmings show a clear colour...
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NewsNuevos directores para la Fundación Starlight y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos
2019 ha traído cambios a la Fundación Starlight y al Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos. En enero, Luis A. Martínez Sáez se despedía del cargo de director de la...