A new study suggests that the gravitational waves detected by the LIGO experiment must have come from black holes generated during the collapse of stars, and...
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NewsA new look at the nature of dark matter
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NewsA new planet hunter starts its work
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have participated in the development of NIRPS, an instrument recently installed on the 3.6m...
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NewsA new research window in Solar Physics: Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry
The CLASP experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, opens a new research window in astrophysics by being able to measure...
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NewsA new research window in Solar Physics: Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry
The CLASP experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, opens a new research window in astrophysics by being able to measure...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA new “Einstein ring” is discovered
This unusual phenomenon, predicted by the theory of General Relativity, was discovered by chance by a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU Mic
An international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...
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NewsA primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky Way
Just as archaeology examines the ground with great care to find valuable objects which helps us to get to know ancient civilizations, astronomers look at the...