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The phosphorus that came from the stars
All chemical elements in the Universe (except for H and most of the He) have been made in stellar interiors. But among those elements, the ones that allowed to...
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NewsThe possible detection of elusive intermediate mass black holesA research team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has observed an unusual type of emission in a sample of local galaxies which could indicate...
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NewsThe puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matterInternational 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...