Numerous exoplanets have been detected around Sun-like stars. These stars end their lives as white dwarfs, which should inherit any surviving planetary systems...
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NewsA planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
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NewsA primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky Way
Just as archaeology examines the ground with great care to find valuable objects which helps us to get to know ancient civilizations, astronomers look at the...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the Sun
The detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
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NewsA shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron stars
Accretion disks around compact objects are expected to enter an unstable phase at high luminosity. One instability may occur when the radiation pressure...
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NewsA stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floor
Stellar ejecta gradually enrich the gas out of which subsequent stars form, making the least chemically enriched stellar systems direct fossils of structures...
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NewsA step forward to solve the mystery of ultra-diffuse galaxies
A study by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), led by researchers Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Trujillo and Johan H. Knapen, reveals that the enigmatic...
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NewsA study of the whole Sun
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Synergy Grants” to a team led by Fernando Moreno Insertis, researcher at the...
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NewsA study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth
An international team of astronomers, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found an exoplanetary system formed by...
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NewsA study shows that “water worlds” could be as common as Earths
Research led by the University of Chicago and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown the existence of exoplanets with water and rock around...