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A new planet hunter starts its work
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have participated in the development of NIRPS, an instrument recently installed on the 3.6m...
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NewsA new stellar site for the formation of very heavy elementsThe recently discovered phosphorus-rich stars pose a challenge to stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis (that is, the formation of chemical elements in stellar...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf starIn recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA new way to measure the distance to NGC1052-DF2O ne of the key challenges in astronomy is to measure accurate distances to celestial objects. Knowing distances is crucial since it allows us to measure...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-EarthResearchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA nonlinear damping mechanism for waves in the solar coronaThe solar coronal heating problem originated almost 80 years ago and remains unsolved. A plausible explanation lies in mechanisms based on magnetic wave energy...
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NewsA novel black hole mass scaling relationThe confirmation of the existence of black holes is one of the most basic results in astrophysics. There is a wide range of masses of black holes, from those...
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NewsA novel code for exploring the magnetic field of the solar coronaThe POLMAG research group of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has released the public version of P-CORONA, a novel computer program for...
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NewsA physically motivated galaxy size definition across different state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulationsMeasuring galaxy sizes is essential for understanding how they were formed and evolved across time. However, traditional methods based on l ight concentration...