An international research, led by scientists from the University of Sheffield and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has...
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NewsScientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary system
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NewsScientists find the explanation at the high temperatures of the solar corona
Caption: Total solar eclipse from Novosibirsk (Russia). In a total eclipse of the Sun, the Moon exactly covers the disk of the Sun. For a few minutes there is...
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PublicationSG-WAS: A New Wireless Autonomous Night Sky Brightness Sensor
The main features of SG-WAS (SkyGlow Wireless Autonomous Sensor), a low-cost device for measuring Night Sky Brightness (NSB), are presented. SG-WAS is based on...
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NewsSHARKS survey detects more than a million invisible sources in its first data release
The first data release of the SHARKS public survey, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), was provided to the astrophysical...
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NewsSharper view of the cosmos through reproducible science
The team led by the researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Mohammad Akhlaghi has obtained a European grant to develop a project focused...
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NewsSimilar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
The researchers Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsSolved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
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NewsSolving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...
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NewsSolving the paradox of the enigmatic solar sodium D1 line polarization
In 1998 the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization (a particular property of light) that had been recently...