Audience: Scientists

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    IRSOL and IAC scientists solve a complex paradox in solar physics
    In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been recently discovered in the light emitted...
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    Is the Large Magellanic Cloud spiral arm a stable structure?
    Some galaxies in the Universe display beautiful and appealing features known as "spiral arms". However, not all galaxies show spiral arms in the same manner...
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    JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”
    The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...
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    Journey to the Big Bang through the lithium of a Milky Way star
    Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy. The...
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    La exposición “100 Lunas cuadradas” viaja a Japón y a Bruselas
    Desde la cumbre de Tenerife hasta el país del Sol naciente pasando por la capital administrativa de la Unión Europea. La exposición “100 Lunas cuadradas”...
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    La Palma will host an international conference for the protection of the night sky
    The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will...