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    New evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thought
    A research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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    New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
    Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...
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    New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
    An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift...
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    New source of lithium production found in the Universe
    A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Manchester and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
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    New techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxies
    The group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
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    New technologies in astronomy and intelligent lighting
    In the second day of the conference "Preserving the Skies" which is being held on La Palma, opened with lectures related to the quality of the sky in...
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    News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
    Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
  • News
    News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
    Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
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    Next week Nicolás Melini will visit the IAC and the Canary Island Observatories
    This writer and author of film scripts will be part of the multicultural project “En un lugar del Universo…”. He will be the eighth author to participate in...