Topic: Astrophysics

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    Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31
    In the 90s, the COBE satellite discovered that not all the microwave emission from our Galaxy behaved as expected. Part of this signal was later assigned to a...
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    Scientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary system
    An international research, led by scientists from the University of Sheffield and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has...
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    Scientists find the explanation at the high temperatures of the solar corona
    Caption: Total solar eclipse from Novosibirsk (Russia). In a total eclipse of the Sun, the Moon exactly covers the disk of the Sun. For a few minutes there is...
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    SERIES SMACK 4: Shell scripting for automation and text editors, by Dr. Mohammad Akhlaghi, Raúl Infante-Sainz
    In the previous SMACKs, basic operations on the command-line were reviewed in interactive mode: where you enter one command, wait for it to finish and enter the...
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    SHARKS survey detects more than a million invisible sources in its first data release
    The first data release of the SHARKS public survey, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), was provided to the astrophysical...
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    Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
    The researchers Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Sky protection is one of the central issues on the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is taking part in the workshop "Dark and Calm Skies for the present and future of Astronomy", which will be held in...
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    Solar and Stellar Magnetism
    Magnetic fields are at the base of star formation and stellar structure and evolution. When stars are born, magnetic fields brake the rotation during the...