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A Sun more complex than expected
The CLASP suborbital rocket experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, provided unprecedented observations of the polarization...
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NewsA super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere modelsDuring the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical...
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NewsA SUPER-JUPITER IN VIEWIt is the nearest exoplanet for which an image and a spectrum have been obtained
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NewsA supernova that may not be one, and other scientific results from the first day of the V International Conference "Science with the GTC"Astrophysics has been the main theme of the first day of the conference "Science with the GTC", that is held in Puebla (México). This is a multidisciplinary...
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NewsA SURPRISING UNIVERSE with the Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasOn Wednesday 20th April there was a scientific outreach event where several astronomers showed us some of the mysteries of the Universe
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NewsA system of globular clusters in the disc of a galaxy detected for the first timeThe OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) has discovered, on the spiral galaxy Messier 106, a system of globular clusters whose unusual...
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NewsA system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the skyThe exoplanets closest to us offer the best opportunities to make a detailed study of their physical properties, including the search for life outside the Solar...
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NewsA team of astronomers finds clues on the magnetism of a new kind of M dwarfA team of astronomers led by ICE-CSIC analyzed for the first time a long radio-observation of a scallop-shell star in a pioneer study. The team observed the...
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NewsA team with the participation of the IAC and the ULL discovers that massive stars prefer to live in pairs even in galaxies with low metallicityMassive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an...