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A huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster
An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a very large, but thin...
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NewsA large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxyAccording to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...
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NewsA mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been foundThe small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...
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NewsA new algorithm that simulates the intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds is developedThe 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 coronaAn 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 look at the nature of dark matterA new study suggests that the gravitational waves detected by the LIGO experiment must have come from black holes generated during the collapse of stars, and...
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NewsA new research window in Solar Physics: Ultraviolet SpectropolarimetryThe CLASP experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, opens a new research window in astrophysics by being able to measure...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf starIn 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...