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IAC Postdoctoral Research Excellence Program 2016
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the availability in 2016 of 14 fellowships as part of its PostDoctoral Research Program, most of them...
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NewsIAC researcher Valentín Martínez Pillet to lead the National Solar ObservatoryThe American institution is a leading centre for solar studiesBorn in Alicante, Martínez Pillet will lead the institution in the coming years while taking on the challenge of setting up the largest solar observatory in the...
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NewsIAC researchers discovered the mysterious structure of a black hole seen edge onThe investigation is published in the latest issue of the journal 'Science'
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NewsIAC Researchers explain the “excess” of Rubidium observed in dying starsA new stellar model atmosphere, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, puts an end to the apparent disagreement between theory and...
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NewsIAC researchers find that the stars in Omega Centauri move under the action of a cluster of black holesOmega Centauri is a large globular cluster, containing almost ten million stars, in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus, which has been studied to...
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NewsIAC researchers find young blue stars in a dwarf elliptical galaxy of the local groupThe observation of recent star formation in the galaxy NGC 187 contradicts the scheme established in the 1940s by the distinguished astronomer Walter Baade...
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NewsIAC Researchers show that a black hole was created following the explosion of a supermassive starAfter detecting the remains of a violent thermonuclear explosion in a star that now orbits a black hole in our Galaxy, IAC researchers, using the Keck Telescope...
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NewsIAC researchers will participate in the XIth Physics Students Conference at the University of La Laguna.Antonia María Varela and Héctor Socas will take part in the round-table discussion on Outreach to be held on the second day.
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NewsIAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxiesA team of researchers from the cosmology group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has obtained one of the most accurate measurements of the masses of...