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Galaxies like Russian dolls
Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...
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NewsGalaxies that don’t shine: simulations predict a hidden population in the nearby universeThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna are leading an international study on dark galaxies. ULL PhD student Guacimara...
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NewsGalaxies that feed on other galaxiesAn international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo...
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ProjectGalaxy Evolution in Clusters of GalaxiesGalaxies in the universe can be located in different environments, some of them are isolated or in low density regions and they are usually called field...
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ProjectGalaxy Evolution in the Local GroupGalaxy formation and evolution is a fundamental Astrophysical problem. Its study requires “travelling back in time”, for which there are two complementary...
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NewsGalaxy transformation across the cosmic web: The influence zone of filamentsThe Universe is not distributed uniformly. Galaxies are arranged in a gigantic cosmic web made of voids, filaments, and galaxy clusters. These filaments act as...
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NewsGalIMF–E-MILES library: Impact of an environment-dependent initial mass function on stellar population spectraWe present, for the first time, model spectra of single-age, single-metallicity stellar populations computed with the E-MILES evolutionary synthesis code...
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NewsGATOS international collaboration meets at the IAC to unravel the mysteries of active galactic nucleiFrom 20 to 23 May, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hosted the scientific meeting of the GATOS (Galaxy Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey)...
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NewsGeminids 2018, the last big meteor shower of the yearThis astronomical event will be visible from both northern and southern hemispheres, and the peak of its activity will be during the nights of Thursday 13th and...