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Old stars live longer than we thought
The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...
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NewsOn the magnetic nature of quiet-Sun chromospheric grainsCaII Kgrains, i.e., intermittent, short-lived (about 1 minute), periodic (2-4 minutes), pointlike chromospheric brightenings, are considered to be the...
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NewsOpen clusters lose stars as they age, study findsAfter comparative studies of a sample of almost 50 open stellar clusters of different ages in the Milky Way, research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsOrigin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarfIn the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
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NewsOverabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula NebulaAn international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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NewsP-CORONA: A New Tool for Calculating the Intensity and Polarization of Coronal Lines in 3D Models of the Solar CoronaThe solar corona—the outermost layer of the Sun’s atmosphere—is extremely hot and very low in density. One of the main challenges in solar physics is...
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DocumentPARALAJES InfraredMost of the energy emitted by the Universe is infrared and, therefore, we cannot see it without special instruments. The IAC has been aware of this since its...
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PublishingPARALAJES InfraredA major fraction of the energy emitted within the universe is in the infrared, but we cannot detect it except using instruments specially developed to do this...
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NewsPLATO reaches a milestone in its construction, and is getting ready to look for planets similar to EarthThe PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) space mission, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), has recently completed one of the most delicate...