The ALISIO-1 satellite shows its efficiency in following the eruptions of the Mexican volcano Popocatépetl |
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Hydrogenated amorphous carbon grains as a carrier of unidentified IR bands in planetary nebulae |
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The mystery of the fullerenes in space explained |
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Astronomers find evidence that blue supergiant stars can be formed by the merger of two stars |
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Astronomers confirm a new “Trojan” asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars |
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La Caixa Foundation awards 5 research grants for doctoral and post-doctoral projects at the IAC |
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The IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids. |
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CARMENES exoplanet hunter scientific meeting |
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First observations of the Canary Islands satellite ALISIO-1 from space |
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LIOM, the IAC's technological laboratory for finding life beyond the Solar System |
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The light pollution in Macaronesia is on the increase |
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A novel code for exploring the magnetic field of the solar corona |
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Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31 |
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Astronomers discover that the first galaxies had very different shapes to today's galaxies |
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Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed |
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Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model |
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The "Visiting Researchers" programme of the Occident Foundation strengthens the commitment to attract prestigious scientific personnel to the IAC |
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El IAC envía al Espacio el primer satélite canario |
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A huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster |
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The synchronized dance of a system of six planets is revealed |
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Astronomers find the key for detecting the largest structures in the early universe |
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On the magnetic nature of quiet-Sun chromospheric grains |
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The JWST view of the barred galaxy population in the SMACS0723 galaxy cluster |
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Discovered: the most distant barred spiral galaxy (until now) |
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Euclid release its first images: the dazzling edge of darkness |
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A conference celebrates 60 years in astrophysics by IAC researcher John Beckman |
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William Herschel Telescope inaugurates its new WEAVE spectrograph |
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A shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron stars |
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Open clusters lose stars as they age, study finds |
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Dating stars with magnetic activity |
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The IAC organises the CLASP2.1 space mission scientific meeting |
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How far does light pollution reach? |
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The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys |
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2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds |
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ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun |
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The densest “Neptune” ever observed |
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Confronting fuzzy dark matter with the rotation curves of nearby dwarf irregular galaxies |
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The relic galaxy NGC 1277 lacks dark matter |
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First test of the Euclid telescope in space. |
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The CSIC and the IAC take part in the creation of the Canary European Solar Telescope Foundation |
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The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter |
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The Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe |
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Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions |
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Blue Supergiants observed in detail |
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Massive pulsating star provides clues to calibrate stellar evolution models |
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The effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasing |
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Astronomers study the magnetic chaos of galaxies in the nearby Universe |
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Nearly Two Million Objects to Study Dark Energy with DESI |
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Evidence of water found in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot gas giant |
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Astronomers find Earth-sized world potentially covered in volcanoes |
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An old problem about the measurement of the chemical composition of the universe has been resolved |
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The mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved |
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Astronomers discover tiny galaxy with extraordinary star formation in distant Universe |
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Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question |
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Molecules precursors to life discovered in the Perseus Cloud |
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Astronomers witness the birth of a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe |
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Relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy |
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Discovery of relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy |
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Initiation of LIOM, the IAC Laboratory for Innovation in Optomechanics |
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A near-pristine star found to be binary |
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Astronomers find the origin of one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way |
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The IAC sends to space its second instrument for Earth observation |
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Hospital Universitario de Canarias and IAC make progress in the early detection of colon cancer with artificial intelligence |
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ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun |
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James Webb Telescope reveals the possible origin of the mysterious shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula |
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The James Webb telescope produces an unparalleled view of the ghostly light in galaxy clusters |
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XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School - Overlaps at the Frontiers of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics |
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The European Space Agency and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias celebrate their silver anniversary in Tenerife |
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Unravelling coronal bright points |
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Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere |
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James Webb telescope studies organic molecules near black holes |
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New insights into the puzzle of strong CO absorptions in massive early-type galaxies |
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Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere |
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The first extensive catalogue of massive stars with low metallicity |
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Rapid quasi-periodic oscillations in a relativistic jet |
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The CLASP2.1 mission team receives a NASA award |
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The possible detection of elusive intermediate mass black holes |
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New source of lithium production found in the Universe |
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A study shows that “water worlds” could be as common as Earths |
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Preparing for the world’s biggest radio telescope |
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An ancient brown dwarf in our cosmic neighbourhood |
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About metallicity variations in the local Galactic interstellar medium |
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A new planet hunter starts its work |
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Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays |
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Gliese 486 b: a Rosetta stone for the study of exoplanets |
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Two new rocky planets in the solar neighborhood |
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Possible evidence of planet formation found in the Orion Nebula |
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Una alianza macaronésica para reducir la contaminación lumínica |
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The star cluster Westerlund 1: a nursery of giant stars within the shadows |
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The synchronized dance of the Magellanic Clouds star formation history |
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A new algorithm that simulates the intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds is developed |
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Dwarf galaxies: key laboratories for the study of dark matter |
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Astronomers observe potential magnetic flip around a supermassive black hole |
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Astronomers discover a “black widow” binary star system with the shortest orbital period known |
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Astronomers discover a four-planet system with a peculiar migration process |
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The cultural and sky landscape of the Way of Saint James |
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Testing fundamental physics with ESPRESSO |
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BBVA Foundation's president, Carlos Torres Vila, visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
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Evidence of the impact of quasar driven outflows on recent star formation |
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Caught in the act: the winds driven by supermassive black holes directly impact star formation |
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An ultraviolet wind in a neutron star X-ray binary transient |
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A novel black hole mass scaling relation |
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A cold wind during the discovery outburst of a black hole |
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Astronomers develop new method for taking the temperature of black holes |
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Powerful warm winds discovered during a neutron star eruption |
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The nature of an extreme B supergiant in Cygnus |
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Astronomers find a black hole which rotates highly inclined to its orbit |
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Astronomers find in the Milky Way an unusual blue supergiant star travelling at high velocity |
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Supermassive black holes change the central regions of galaxies |
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IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies |
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A sub-Earth confirmed in the planetary system of the closest star to the Sun |
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SHARKS survey detects more than a million invisible sources in its first data release |
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NORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars" |
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A stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floor |
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The mystery of the brightest planetary nebulae |
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MUSE reveals different gas components in planetary nebulae |
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Astronomers discover first supernova explosion of a Wolf-Rayet star |
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A primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky Way |
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Origin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarf |
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A dwarf irregular galaxy caught in transition |
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Astronomers find Milky Way analogue galaxy in the early universe |
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Astronomers confirm the existence of a cosmic supervoid that challenges our understanding of dark energy |
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A dense ultra-short period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star |
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ESPRESSO puts the physical constants to the test |
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The “last breaths” in the lives of galaxies |
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Astronomers discover an ultra-light and super-fast sub-Earth orbiting a red dwarf |
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Study reveals that giant planets could reach "maturity" much earlier than previously thought |
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Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae |
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Mapping the hidden magnetic field of the quiet Sun |
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Astronomers discover ancient brown dwarf with lithium deposits intact |
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Constraints on the dust extinction law of the Galaxy |
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Discovery of pulsations in the nitrogen-rich PG1159 star PG 1144+005 |
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Detection of TiO and Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b |
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Characterization of the host galaxy from gamma-ray blazars |
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Testing the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhood |
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Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy |
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Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed |
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CLASP2.1: a new suborbital space mission for mapping the magnetic field of the solar chromosphere |
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Rocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition |
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Are ultra-diffuse galaxies structurally similar to low-surface-brightness galaxies? |
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Calibrating the Rossby number, a key parameter to study the magnetic activity of stars |
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Solving the paradox of the enigmatic solar sodium D1 line polarization |
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The Cumbre Vieja volcano taken with the DRAGO camera from orbit |
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Testing Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations |
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New data obtained about the biggest and one of the most complete Einstein rings |
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Measuring darkness in remote places |
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Dust in the central parsecs of unobscured AGN provides more challenges to the torus |
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Anatomy of the impact of a protostellar jet in the Orion Nebula |
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IRSOL and IAC scientists solve a complex paradox in solar physics |
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A nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar corona |
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The star formation rate evolution of low-mass galaxies as seen by OTELO |
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A study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth |
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Astronomers discover how to feed a black hole |
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Black holes modulate star formation in neighboring galaxies |
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Rotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way |
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WEAVE is ready to start operating in La Palma |
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A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy |
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The first light pollution laboratory in the Azores |
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Satellite galaxies can carry on forming stars when they pass close to their parent galaxies |
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CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet |
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A study shows the unexpected effect of black holes beyond their own galaxies |
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The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI |
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The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified |
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Astronomers discover a massive star cluster, of intermediate age, in the constellation Scutum |
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Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes |
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Does the Milky Way move like a spinning top? |
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The natural brightness of the night sky |
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The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter |
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A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star |
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A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy |
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Efficient Bayesian inference of the evolving cosmic web from galaxy surveys |
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New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales |
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El IAC y el CNRS firman un acuerdo para la creación del Laboratorio Franco-Español de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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Downflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbrae |
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Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations |
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A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation |
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A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models |
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Neural networks to distinguish real and simulated galaxies |
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Mapping solar magnetic fields from the photosphere to the corona |
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Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web |
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The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field from the photosphere up to the base of the corona |
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Astronomers test a method for investigating cosmic inflation |
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Post-common envelope binaries as the precursors of extremely red old stars |
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Collision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky object |
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Astronomers discover a surprising system of six exoplanets which orbit rhythmically |
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Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera |
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A challenge to models of star-formation truncation in massive galaxies |
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An eclipse, a superconjunction, and the last meteor shower of the year: Geminids 2020 |
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New techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies |
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A new stellar site for the formation of very heavy elements |
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A Plague of Magnetic Spots Among the Hot Stars of Globular Clusters |
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Colouring asteroid Bennu |
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The Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million euros |
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Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed |
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Discovery of a young forming planet around the nearby star AU Mic |
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies |
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Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu |
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The role of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the evolution of our Galaxy |
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Cosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave Emission |
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The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter is solved |
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