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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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GalleryComet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)The spectrum acquired by GTC of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) reveals that this object has a surface composition not unlike that found in Solar System...
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NewsConfirmed: black holes regulate star formation in massive galaxiesAn 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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NewsConfirming new physics in spaceThe 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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NewsConfronting fuzzy dark matter with the rotation curves of nearby dwarf irregular galaxiesDark 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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NewsConstraints on the dust extinction law of the GalaxyThis 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...
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NewsConstraints on the in situ and ex situ stellar masses in nearby galaxies obtained with artificial intelligenceThe hierarchical model of galaxy evolution suggests that mergers have a substantial impact on the intricate processes that drive stellar assembly within a...
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EventConstraints on Ultra-Light Dark Matter from Galactic Rotation Curves by Prof. Diego Blas Imperial CollegeABSTRACT Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) in the mass range m ~ $10^{-22} - 10^{-21} \rm eV$ has been invoked as a motivated candidate with new input for...
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NewsContinuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black holeA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected for the first time the constant infrared emission from winds produced...