Scope: SO Research

  • News
    Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
    Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) have discovered the remains of a planet inside a disc of...
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    Helium signal reveals the comet-like tail of exoplanet WASP-69b for the first time
    An international group of scientist led by researches from the IAC detect the evaporation of atmospheric helium on the giant exoplanet WASP-69b.
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    How solar prominences vibrate
    An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has cataloged around 200...
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    IAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that shouldn’t really exist
    Its very low content of metals, and specifically of carbon, put in question the current models of low mass star formation in the early universe
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    IAC astronomers find one of the first stars formed in the Milky Way
    Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have identified, using the Gran Telescopio de Canarias (GTC) a star which is a key to the...
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    IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies
    A team of researchers from the cosmology group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has obtained one of the most accurate measurements of the masses of...
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    IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
    An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
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    Is the Large Magellanic Cloud spiral arm a stable structure?
    Some galaxies in the Universe display beautiful and appealing features known as "spiral arms". However, not all galaxies show spiral arms in the same manner...
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    JWST view of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and dust in local active galaxies
    Nowadays, it is widely accepted that most galaxies undergo an active phase in their evolution. The impact of the energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGN)...