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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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NewsIAC astronomers find one of the first stars formed in the Milky WayResearchers 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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NewsIAC astrophysicists discover a 'relic' galaxy frozen in timeThe nearby galaxy NGC 1277 was formed at an early epoch of the cosmos and has remainedunchanged since then, thus making it a unique window on to the early...
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NewsIAC is participating in a full programme of activities for the Day of Women and Girls in ScienceThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has 94 female researchers and engineers, consolidates its commitment to gender equality by participating...
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NewsIAC Postdoctoral Research Excellence Program 2016The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the availability in 2016 of 14 fellowships as part of its PostDoctoral Research Program, most of them...
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NewsIAC researcher Valentín Martínez Pillet to lead the National Solar ObservatoryThe American institution is a leading centre for solar studiesBorn in Alicante, Martínez Pillet will lead the institution in the coming years while taking on the challenge of setting up the largest solar observatory in the...
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NewsIAC researchers discovered the mysterious structure of a black hole seen edge onThe investigation is published in the latest issue of the journal 'Science'
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NewsIAC Researchers explain the “excess” of Rubidium observed in dying starsA new stellar model atmosphere, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, puts an end to the apparent disagreement between theory and...
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NewsIAC researchers find young blue stars in a dwarf elliptical galaxy of the local groupThe observation of recent star formation in the galaxy NGC 187 contradicts the scheme established in the 1940s by the distinguished astronomer Walter Baade...