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  • RGB image of the Ring Nebula obtained with WEAVE/LIFU
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    The William Herschel telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory discovers a mysterious iron “bar” in the Ring Nebula
    Research carried out with the new WEAVE spectrograph, installed on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma), and in whose construction the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found a mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The study was conducted by a European team led by astronomers at University College London (UCL) and Cardiff University, and includes researchers from the IAC. The cloud of iron atoms, described for the first time in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  • Artist's impression of the HD 114082 planetary system
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    IAC y ULL led the identification of the longest orbital period exoplanets among those transiting young stars
    An international collaboration of astronomers led by the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has identified two intriguing, humongous but light planets orbit ing HD 114082. This star is only 15 million years old, this is, much younger than the Sun (4.6 billion years old) , spin s 15 times faster , has 28% more mass , and is about one thousand degrees hotter and almost four times more luminous. Its planets receive about 200 times more light and heat than Jupiter. The study, which involved separating the faint planetary signal from the stellar one
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  • Organizadores y estudiantes durante la selección del Premio Cosmos estudiantes
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    El comité estudiantil del Premio Cosmos falla el libro ganador en una jornada dedicada a la divulgación científica
    El comité estudiantil del Premio Cosmos falla el libro ganador de este certamen organizado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) a través del proyecto UNDARK, desvelando el Universo Oscuro desde los Observatorios de Canarias, y con la colaboración de la Fundación CajaCanarias y el apoyo de la Dirección General de Ordenación de las Enseñanzas, Inclusión e Innovación de la Consejería de Educación, Formación Profesional, Actividad Física y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias. El fallo se dará a conocer en la gala final del proyecto que se celebrará el próximo mes de junio. El Premio
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