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Old stars live longer than we thought
The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...
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NewsOMAIRA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN: “The Canary Observatories have been essential in the advance of the study of nuclear activity in galaxies”For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active...
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NewsOn the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic wavesCombining computer observations and simulations, a new model shows that the presence of neutrals in the gas facilitates the magnetic fields to penetrate through...
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NewsOne of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealedA study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained...
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NewsOpen clusters lose stars as they age, study findsAfter comparative studies of a sample of almost 50 open stellar clusters of different ages in the Milky Way, research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsOpen Days 2017 at the Teide ObservatoryOrganized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) they will take place on June 23rd and 24th.
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NewsOpen Days 2019 at the Teide ObservatoryOrganized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) they will take place on June 14 and 15th.
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NewsOTELO reveals a population of “ghost galaxies” in the UniverseThanks to the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Ganarias (GTC) it has been possible to make the deepest survey of galaxies to date (OTELO) and the...
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NewsOur solar neighbourhood is full of planetsThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated in the discovery of a frozen super-Earth around Barnard’s star, in the second nearest solar system to...