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Confirming new physics in space
The interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...
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NewsConstraints on the dust extinction law of the GalaxyThis work explores data from a few surveys, most notably the serendipitous catalogue from the NASA SWIFT mission that made use of the NUV/optical camera UVOT...
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NewsContinuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black holeA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected for the first time the constant infrared emission from winds produced...
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DocumentContributions-drafting guidelines
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NewsCosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave EmissionThe 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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NewsDaniel Nóbrega, with a doctorate at the IAC, is awarded the SEA prize for the best thesis of 2018The prizewinning thesis, with the title “Eruptive Phenomena in the solar atmosphere: radiative-magnetohydrodynamic models and the development of a numerical...
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EventDark and Quiet Skies for Science and SocietySince 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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DocumentDark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society. Report and recommendationsFrom 5 to 9 October 2020, around 1,000 people participated in the Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society Workshop, which resulted in this report and...
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NewsDAVID 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...