Scope: Science and Technology

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    Astronomers open the way to the hearts of the blue supergiants
    The Catholic University of Louvain, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, leads the first...
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    Astronomers spot a giant planet that’s as light as cotton candy
    An international team, led by a researcher from the University of Liège (Belgium) affiliated to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered...
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    Astronomers study the magnetic chaos of galaxies in the nearby Universe
    International research, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), reveals that perturbations in the magnetic fields of galaxies...
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    Astronomers test a method for investigating cosmic inflation
    A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
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    Astronomers witness the birth of a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe
    An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the still...
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    Astrophysicists from the IAC discover an intense wind in the neighbourhood of a black hole
    The observations of V404 Cygni, which went into outburst in 2015 after more than 25 years of quiescence, were made with the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran...
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    Back to the Lithium Plateau with the [Fe/H] < -6 star J0023+0307
    We present an analysis of the UVES high-resolution spectroscopic observations at the 8.2m VLT of J0023+0307, an extremely iron-poor dwarf star. We are unable to...