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    New data from the Planck space mission give support to the current model of the universo
    Researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias are participating in the science team of this project of the European Space Agency (ESA) which is...
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    New data obtained about the biggest and one of the most complete Einstein rings
    In December 2020 a team from the European Space Agency (ESA) published an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of GAL-CLUS-022058s, the biggest and...
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    New Director of the Museum of Science and Cosmos
    Antonia Varela Pérez has been appointed by the Cabildo of Tenerife, at the proposal of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), as the new director of...
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    New Earths discovered around a very small star
    An international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
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    New edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"
    With the aim of motivating interest in scientific and technological (STEM) careers among the younger girls, and to publicise the work of the women...
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    New edition of “Talk to them: Women in Astronomy”
    Women astronomers and engineers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from the Canary Observatories, and from other collaborating institutions...
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    New evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thought
    A research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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    New insights into the puzzle of strong CO absorptions in massive early-type galaxies
    Puzzling properties of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs) emerge when studying their spectra at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. Massive ETGs show strong CO...
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    New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
    Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...