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Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron
Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsObserved: an occultation of a brown dwarf by anotherAn international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
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NewsObservers find two stars so close together that they will end up by merging into one very massive starA study of the binary system “MY Camelopardalis” published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are formed by the merging...
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NewsObservers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fedA team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process...
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NewsODISEA ESPACIALEl IAC participa en la concepción y desarrollo de la carga útil científica de la misión Planck para el estudio del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas
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NewsOld stars live longer than we thoughtThe type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...
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NewsOn the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic wavesCombining computer observations and simulations, a new model shows that the presence of neutrals in the gas facilitates the magnetic fields to penetrate through...
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NewsOne of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealedA study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained...
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NewsOne of the most distant, massive “hypercluster” of galaxies has been discoveredA study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) reveals the existence of a system made up of 830 galaxies with a diameter of 900...