The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated in the discovery of a frozen super-Earth around Barnard’s star, in the second nearest solar system to...
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NewsOur solar neighbourhood is full of planets
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NewsOverabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula
An 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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NewsPossible evidence of planet formation found in the Orion Nebula
International research led by scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown the existence of solid sulphur compounds in HH514, a jet of...
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NewsPost-common envelope binaries as the precursors of extremely red old stars
Modelling dust formation in single stars evolving through the carbon-star stage of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) (i.e., the late evolutionary stages of Sun...
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NewsPrimeros resultados científicos de CARMENES
Este instrumento, en el que el IAC participa en su diseño y construcción, así como en el grupo científico, ha estudiado una muestra de trescientas estrellas en...
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TalkReconstructing the history of the Milky Way and probing the dark matter nature in WEAVE and LSST era
At present, our understanding of the formation history of the MW is limited due to the complexity of observing the imprints of accretion events and of...
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NewsRed nuggets at the center of nearby galaxies
The “Lambda Cold Dark Matter” (CDM) cosmological model is the current theory credited for reproducing the physics responsible for the formation and evolution of...
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NewsResearchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three...
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NewsRough, dense with boulders and low albedo surface of Bennu revealed through images of NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
The first results on the analysis of the images of Bennu obtained using OCAMS, OVIRS, and OTES instruments on-board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have been...