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    MAGIC telescopes test the quantum structure of space-time
    The detection of a gamma ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory allows us to study whether the speed of light in a vacuum...
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    Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere
    The prestigious journal Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics invites two researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to publish an...
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    Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy
    There is a force hidden deep inside galaxies: magnetic fields. Invisible to conventional telescopes, they are a factor in galaxy evolution, regulating the...
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    Making the Hubble’s deepest images even deeper
    It has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by...
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    Mapping solar magnetic fields from the photosphere to the corona
    The solar chromosphere is the region between the relatively thin and cold photosphere (temperature of a few thousand degrees) and the hot and extended corona...
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    Mapping the hidden magnetic field of the quiet Sun
    The Sun is the only star where we can resolve the intricate magnetism that all convective stars harbor. Yet, more than 99% of its visible surface along the...
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    Mapping the Magnetic Field in the Chromosphere of Solar Active Regions
    The magnetic field in the solar chromosphere plays a key role in the heating of the outer solar atmosphere and in the build-up and sudden release of energy in...
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    MARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"
    Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
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    MARIA BERGEMANN: “Miniscule changes in physical properties of late-type stars may have radical effects on the emitted radiation spectra”
    Maria Bergemann, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), is one of the invited professors at the XXIX Canary Islands...