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CALIFA renews the classification of galaxies
This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have...
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PublishingCaosycienciaCaosyciencia is an initiative of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) for the dissemination of Astronomy and other related sciences. Since it was...
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NewsCasiana Muñoz -Tuñón, new Deputy Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasCasiana, an astrophysicist expert in galaxies, and Principal Investigator of the international collaboration ESTALLIDOS, will also lead the Sky Quality Group of...
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NewsCharla pública: «Ondas gravitacionales. Los sonidos del Universo»Mañana viernes, 22 de noviembre, a las 19 horas, en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, tendrá lugar la charla divulgativa “Ondas...
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DocumentComunicación CCSC 2019 "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía"Proceeding de la comunicación "Habla con Ellas: Mujeres en Astronomía" presentada en el VII Congreso de Comunicación Social de la Ciencia (2019).
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NewsConfirming new physics in spaceThe 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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NewsContracts for those newly qualified in “Formación Profesional”The result of an agreement signed between the “La Caixa” foundation, the CajaCanaris Foundation and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is that the...
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NewsDiscovery of a massive black hole companion to a B-type star from radial velocity measurementsAll 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...
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NewsDiscovery of the highest-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst by the MAGIC telescopesGamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief and extremely powerful cosmic explosions. They are thought to result from the collapse of massive stars or the merging of...