With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
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NewsTesting Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
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NewsTesting fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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NewsTesting the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhood
Blazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
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DocumentTHE "WINTER" COMES OF AGE
The Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics comes of age.
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NewsThe astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has died
Professor Guido Münch was the first astronomer to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1989 for which he was...
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NewsThe atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysed
The combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on...
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NewsThe Canary Islands Observatories visit the European Parliament
The exhibition "100 Square Moons" is inaugurated in Brussels, together with a model of the European Solar Telescope. For a week the European Parliament in...
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ProjectThe Central PARSEC of Galaxies using High Spatial Resolution Techniques
PARSEC is a multi-wavelength investigation of the central PARSEC of the nearest galaxies. We work on black-hole accretion and its most energetic manifestations...