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The challenges of Astrophysics and Cosmology
This Friday 2nd December at 17.30 will take place the public lecture “Challenges of Astrophysics and Cosmology”, which will tackle the role of technology in the...
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NewsThe cultural and sky landscape of the Way of Saint JamesA study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio has shown the relevance of sunrise on Easter Sunday, one of...
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NewsThe densest “Neptune” ever observedAn international team of researchers, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has discovered an extremely dense Neptune-sized planet...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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TalkThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fittingGaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way...
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NewsThe exhibition “AstrónomAs” which gives visibility to women in Astronomy has arrrived in TenerifeIt can be visited in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos until 22nd May. Next Wednesday, April 6th, there will be an inauguration ceremony with the women...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf starWe present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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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)...
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TalkThe formation of Milky Way-mass galactic disc structure in cosmological simulationsRecent years have seen impressive development in cosmological simulations for spiral disc galaxies like the Milky Way. I present a suite of high-resolution...