We detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...
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NewsA nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
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NewsA new algorithm that simulates the intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds is developed
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led the development of a new numerical procedure that allows to reproduce in a few seconds with Big Data and...
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NewsA new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...
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NewsA new explanation for the high temperatures of the solar corona
An international scientific team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), have...
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NewsA new planet hunter starts its work
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have participated in the development of NIRPS, an instrument recently installed on the 3.6m...
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NewsA new stellar site for the formation of very heavy elements
The recently discovered phosphorus-rich stars pose a challenge to stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis (that is, the formation of chemical elements in stellar...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar corona
The solar coronal heating problem originated almost 80 years ago and remains unsolved. A plausible explanation lies in mechanisms based on magnetic wave energy...