SERIES SMACK 4: Shell scripting for automation and text editors, by Dr. Mohammad Akhlaghi, Raúl Infante-Sainz
In the previous SMACKs, basic operations on the command-line were reviewed in interactive mode: where you enter one command, wait for it to finish and enter the...
Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
The researchers Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...
Solving the paradox of the enigmatic solar sodium D1 line polarization
In 1998 the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization (a particular property of light) that had been recently...