The first data show there were at least two, and possibly three, more unseen stars that crafted the oblong, curvy shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula. In...
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NewsJames Webb Telescope reveals the possible origin of the mysterious shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula
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NewsJames Webb telescope studies organic molecules near black holes
Research led by the University of Oxford and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in studying, for the first...
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NewsJourney to the Big Bang through the lithium of a Milky Way star
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy. The...
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NewsLa Caixa Foundation awards 5 research grants for doctoral and post-doctoral projects at the IAC
One male and one female researcher received the Junior Leader postdoctoral fellowship and three others received INPhINIT Incoming PhD fellowships. The aim is to...
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NewsLa Palma telescopes participate in the discovery of a young blazar produced by the merger of two galaxies
An international team of scientists has obtained the first unequivocal detection of a very high speed jet of matter emitted by a galaxy in the process of...
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DocumentLaPalma Data Services User Guide
Manual for users of LaPalma Data Services
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NewsLarge scale dynamical differences between active and non-active galaxies in the local Universe
Observational evidence s suggest a co-evolution of the central supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. In some of them, the black hole is ingesting...
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NewsLIOM, the IAC's technological laboratory for finding life beyond the Solar System
From 14 to 16 February, the second scientific meeting of the Laboratory for Innovation in Opto-Mechanics (LIOM) will be held at the IACTEC building managed by...
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NewsLow-frequency gravity waves in blue supergiants
Almost all massive stars explode as supernovae and form a black hole or neutron star. The remnant mass and the impact of the chemical yield on subsequent star...