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A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU MicAn international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...
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NewsA super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere modelsDuring the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical...
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NewsAstronomers discover an ultra-light and super-fast sub-Earth orbiting a red dwarfAn international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered an extrasolar planet with half the mass of the...
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NewsCHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanetThe 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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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first timeWith data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsThe first “ultrahot Neptune” is discoveredA team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...