Scope: Science and Technology

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    CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
    The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
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    CLASP-2: investigating the magnetic solar chromosphere by means of telescopes launched into space with NASA suborbital rockets
    Four years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical...
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    CLASP2.1: a new suborbital space mission for mapping the magnetic field of the solar chromosphere
    In 2015 and 2019 an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out two unprecedented suborbital space experiments called CLASP and CLASP2, which were...
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    Collision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky object
    Hayabusa2’s optical navigation camera (ONC) found many anomalously bright boulders on the dark surface of the carbonaceous (or C-type) asteroid Ryugu...
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    Colouring asteroid Bennu
    The main objective of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is the collection of material from the surface of primitive asteroid (101955) Bennu, and to bring it back to...
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    Confirmed: black holes regulate star formation in massive galaxies
    An International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains...
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    Confirming new physics in space
    The 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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    Confronting fuzzy dark matter with the rotation curves of nearby dwarf irregular galaxies
    Dark matter is an invisible substance that makes up more than eighty percent of the matter content of the universe. We know of its existence due to its...
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    Constraints on the dust extinction law of the Galaxy
    This work explores data from a few surveys, most notably the serendipitous catalogue from the NASA SWIFT mission that made use of the NUV/optical camera UVOT...