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Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma
The Teatro Circo de Marte of this municipality of Palma will host a public talk on Wednesday about the new possibilities offered by the Cherenkov Telescope...
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NewsDiscovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool starAn international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...
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NewsDiscovery of pulsations in the nitrogen-rich PG1159 star PG 1144+005Up to 98% of all single stars will eventually become white dwarfs - stars that link the history and future evolution of the Galaxy, and whose previous evolution...
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NewsDiscovery of Stars Surrounded by Iron Dust in the Large Magellanic CloudStars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) before ending their lives as white dwarfs. It...
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NewsDoes the Milky Way move like a spinning top?An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the...
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NewsDolmens and the EquinoxNext Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere...
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NewsDos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luzNuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...
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NewsDownflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbraeUmbral flashes are sudden brightenings commonly visible in the core of some chromospheric lines. Theoretical and numerical modeling suggests that they are...
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NewsDRAGO passes its tests for launch into spaceThe flight model for the SWIR DRAGO camera, developed by the IACTEC-Space team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all...