During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical...
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NewsA super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
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NewsA system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the sky
The exoplanets closest to us offer the best opportunities to make a detailed study of their physical properties, including the search for life outside the Solar...
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NewsA “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the CSIC has found evidence of a “kilonomva”...
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NewsAbout metallicity variations in the local Galactic interstellar medium
In this work we discuss and confront recent results on metallicity variations in the local interstellar medium, obtained from observations of H II regions by...
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NewsAfter the Kepler supernova explosion, no survivors were left behind
A study involving a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has been led by a researcher at the Instituto de Física Fundamental...
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NewsAn amino acid essential for life is found in interstellar space
The IAC researcher Susana Iglesias-Groth has discovered the existence of tryptophan, an amino acid essential for the formation of proteins and the develoment of...
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NewsAn ancient brown dwarf in our cosmic neighbourhood
A study, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the presence of an unusual metal-poor brown dwarf less than 30 light-years away...
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NewsAn ionised bubble powered by a proto-cluster at z = 6.5
We show herein that a proto-cluster of Lyα emitting galaxies, spectroscopically confirmed at redshift 6.5, produces a remarkable number of ionising continuum...
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NewsAn old problem about the measurement of the chemical composition of the universe has been resolved
Research carried out by a scientific team from the University of Heidelberg (UH), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the National Autonomous...