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A near-pristine star found to be binary
The nearly primordial origin of an ancient star of the Milky Way confirmed by an international team of researchers thanks to the ESPRESSO spectrograph. Stars...
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NewsA nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigationWe detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...
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NewsA new algorithm that simulates the intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds is developedThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led the development of a new numerical procedure that allows to reproduce in a few seconds with Big Data and...
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NewsA new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...
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NewsA new explanation for the high temperatures of the solar coronaAn international scientific team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), have...
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NewsA new planet hunter starts its workResearchers 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 stellar site for the formation of very heavy elementsThe recently discovered phosphorus-rich stars pose a challenge to stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis (that is, the formation of chemical elements in stellar...
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NewsA new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf starIn 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, potentially inhabitable super-EarthResearchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...