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A promising future for the Canary Island Observatories
From 11th to 13th November the conference “Future Instruments for the Telescopes of the Canary Observatories”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the SunThe detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
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NewsA shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron starsAccretion disks around compact objects are expected to enter an unstable phase at high luminosity. One instability may occur when the radiation pressure...
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NewsA stargazers’ festivalThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) are collaborating in Astrofest La Palma 2018, a big festival of events...
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NewsA stellar first showing of the new film by Mateo Gil “The Laws of Thermodynamics”The première will be in the Gran Telescopio de Canarias, and there will be two special showings, one in the University of La Laguna, and the other in the Museum...
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NewsA stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floorStellar ejecta gradually enrich the gas out of which subsequent stars form, making the least chemically enriched stellar systems direct fossils of structures...
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NewsA step forward to solve the mystery of ultra-diffuse galaxiesA study by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), led by researchers Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Trujillo and Johan H. Knapen, reveals that the enigmatic...
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NewsA study gives accurate motions of the largest sample, to date, of galaxies in the Local GroupA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) led by Giuseppina Battaglia has used the third catalogue of data, EDR3, from the GAIA...
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NewsA study of the whole SunThe European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Synergy Grants” to a team led by Fernando Moreno Insertis, researcher at the...