Audience: Scientists

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    Cosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave Emission
    The main emission mechanisms of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the spectral range between the radio and the far infrared are very well characterised and...
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    Daniel Nóbrega, with a doctorate at the IAC, is awarded the SEA prize for the best thesis of 2018
    The prizewinning thesis, with the title “Eruptive Phenomena in the solar atmosphere: radiative-magnetohydrodynamic models and the development of a numerical...
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    Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society
    Since millennia the silent and ordered beauty of the night sky has inspired humankind in all its intellectual and emotional expressions: poetry, philosophy...
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    DAVID SOBRAL: “There is so much to be discovered about the universe that astronomy is certainly an area worth pursuing”
    Astronomer Dr David Sobral is on a quest to trace the origins of the Universe and understand how galaxies like our own formed and evolved from the end of the...
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    Detection of TiO and Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b
    We present the low-resolution transmission spectra of the puffy hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b (0.53 MJup, 1.89 RJup, Teq = 1930 K), based on two transits observed using...
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    Differences between the discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time
    A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active...
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    Discovery of a massive black hole companion to a B-type star from radial velocity measurements
    All stellar-mass black holes have hitherto been identified by X-rays emitted from gas that is accreting onto the black hole from a companion star. These systems...