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Black-hole-regulated star formation in massive galaxies
The centres of massive galaxies are among the most exotic regions in the Universe. They harbour supermassive black holes, with masses of at least one million...
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NewsBulgeless Evolution And the Rise of Discs (BEARD): I. Physical drivers of the mass-size relation for Milky Way-like galaxiesIn the standard Lambda cold dark matter (Lambda-CDM) cosmology, galaxies grow by gradually accreting material and through mergers with other galaxies. This...
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NewsCALIFA renews the classification of galaxiesThis project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have...
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PublishingCaosycienciaCaosyciencia is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) for the dissemination of Astronomy and other related sciences. Since it was...
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NewsCasiana Muñoz -Tuñón, new Deputy Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasCasiana, an astrophysicist expert in galaxies, and Principal Investigator of the international collaboration ESTALLIDOS, will also lead the Sky Quality Group of...
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NewsCharla pública: «Ondas gravitacionales. Los sonidos del Universo»Mañana viernes, 22 de noviembre, a las 19 horas, en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, tendrá lugar la charla divulgativa “Ondas...
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NewsChronology of our Galaxy from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting (ChronoGal): II. Unveiling the formation and evolution of the kinematically selected Thick and Thin DiscsResearch on the formation, origin, and evolution of the dichotomy between the thin and thick disk components of the Milky Way has been a major topic of study...
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DocumentComunicación CCSC 2019 "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"Proceeding de la comunicación "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía" presentada en el VII Congreso de Comunicación Social de la Ciencia (2019).
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NewsConfirming new physics in spaceThe interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...