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A new look at the nature of dark matter
A 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 planet hunter starts its workResearchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have participated in the development of NIRPS, an instrument recently installed on the 3.6m...
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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...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-EarthResearchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar coronaThe solar coronal heating problem originated almost 80 years ago and remains unsolved. A plausible explanation lies in mechanisms based on magnetic wave energy...
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NewsA novel black hole mass scaling relationThe confirmation of the existence of black holes is one of the most basic results in astrophysics. There is a wide range of masses of black holes, from those...
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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU MicAn international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...
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NewsA primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky WayJust as archaeology examines the ground with great care to find valuable objects which helps us to get to know ancient civilizations, astronomers look at the...