Audience: Scientists

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    A look at the subatomic world from the IAC
    The second edition of the conference on Particle Physics, HC2NP2019, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, will take place next week in Puerto...
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    A lower limit to the accretion disc radius in the active galactic nucleus NGC 1052
    Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) are found in about 1/3 of all the galaxies in the Local Universe, establishing the most numerous class of AGNs...
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    A mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found
    The small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...
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    A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
    We detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...
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    A new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”
    To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...
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    A new stellar site for the formation of very heavy elements
    The recently discovered phosphorus-rich stars pose a challenge to stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis (that is, the formation of chemical elements in stellar...
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    A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
    In 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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    A new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
    Researchers 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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    A nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar corona
    The solar coronal heating problem originated almost 80 years ago and remains unsolved. A plausible explanation lies in mechanisms based on magnetic wave energy...