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The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter
International research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has found the first evidence of a massive...
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NewsThe role of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the evolution of our GalaxyThe European Space Agency's Gaia mission is revolutionising our understanding on how the Milky Way, the spiral galaxy we inhabit, has formed and evolved. Gaia...
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NewsThe synchronized dance of a system of six planets is revealedAn international collaboration, with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a system of six exoplanets orbiting a central...
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NewsThe synchronized dance of the Magellanic Clouds star formation historyAccording to the current theories of galaxy formation, these generally form as small entities that grow through fusion, collision and accretion, eventually...
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NewsThe WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORMThe Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team present the first observations with this new instrument. This is a powerful latest...
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NewsTouching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and BennuThis Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
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NewsTwo new rocky planets in the solar neighborhoodAn international scientific collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered two new super-Earths orbiting a...
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TalkUsing Machine learning in interstellar mediumArtificial intelligence techniques are increasingly used in our daily lives. They also play an important role in science, including astrophysics. I am...
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NewsViolent flares in the centre of a black hole systemA international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton and with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has used the camera...