Project
SEVERO OCHOA 2016 - 2019
The IAC is an internationalized Spanish research centre aiming to achieve major advances in the understanding of the laws that govern the origin and evolution...
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ConferenceSevero Ochoa school: Exploiting extragalactic surveys in the era of large telescopesThe formation and evolution of galaxies is one of the most important topics under study in modern astrophysics. The advent of current and future observing...
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NewsSextans: the smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until nowA team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered a new case of galactic cannibalism in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way, which has...
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PublicationSignatures of sunspot oscillations and the case for chromospheric resonancesSunspots host a large variety of oscillatory phenomena, whose properties depend on the nature of the wave modes and the magnetic and thermodynamic structure of...
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NewsSixth edition of "Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy" and other initiatives to celebrate the Day of Women and Girls in ScienceThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is joining in the celebrations for 11 February by taking part in more than a dozen actions aimed at promoting...
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NewsSolved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky WayA team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
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NewsSolving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulaePlanetary 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...
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PublicationSolving the Paradox of the Solar Sodium D<SUB>1</SUB> Line PolarizationTwenty-five years ago, enigmatic linear polarization signals were discovered in the core of the sodium D 1 line. The only explanation that could be found...
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NewsStars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universeThe journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...