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CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
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NewsChile and Argentina feature in the next solar eclipseOn July 2nd there will be a total eclipse of the sun which will touch land only in Chile, Argentina, and on the island of Oeno a small corral atol in the centre...
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NewsCLASP-2: investigating the magnetic solar chromosphere by means of telescopes launched into space with NASA suborbital rocketsFour years ago, an international team (USA, Japan and Europe) carried out an unprecedented suborbital space experiment called CLASP-1, motivated by theoretical...
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NewsCollision of C-type Ryugu’s parent body with a rocky objectHayabusa2’s optical navigation camera (ONC) found many anomalously bright boulders on the dark surface of the carbonaceous (or C-type) asteroid Ryugu...
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NewsColouring asteroid BennuThe main objective of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is the collection of material from the surface of primitive asteroid (101955) Bennu, and to bring it back to...
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NewsConfirmed: black holes regulate star formation in massive galaxiesAn International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains...
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NewsConfirming new physics in spaceThe interstellar medium is an excellent laboratory to test physical processes that cannot be reproduced in Earth-based laboratories. In this study several...
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NewsConstraints on the dust extinction law of the GalaxyThis work explores data from a few surveys, most notably the serendipitous catalogue from the NASA SWIFT mission that made use of the NUV/optical camera UVOT...
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NewsContinuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black holeA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected for the first time the constant infrared emission from winds produced...