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A new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU MicAn international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...
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NewsA primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky WayJust as archaeology examines the ground with great care to find valuable objects which helps us to get to know ancient civilizations, astronomers look at the...
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NewsA promising future for the Canary Island ObservatoriesFrom 11th to 13th November the conference “Future Instruments for the Telescopes of the Canary Observatories”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the SunThe detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the SunThe detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
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NewsA spectacular Geminids night PHOTONEWSEvery year at about this date the Earth in its orbit round the Sun meets up with a stream of particles from the asteroid 3200 Phaeton, which produces the meteor...
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NewsA star six times more massive than the Sun influenced the birth of the Solar SystemAn international team led by Spanish astrophysicists has discovered that the origin of some of the radioactive elements found in the most primitive meteorites...
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NewsA stargazers’ festivalThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) are collaborating in Astrofest La Palma 2018, a big festival of events...