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New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...
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NewsNew measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General RelativityAn international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift...
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NewsNew source of lithium production found in the UniverseA team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Manchester and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
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NewsNew techniques are developed for producing synthetic catalogues of galaxiesThe group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has developed, using the BAM (Bias Assignment Method)...
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NewsNews about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
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NewsNightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanetUltrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth’s insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories...
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NewsNon-grey dimming events of KIC 8462852 from GTC spectrophotometryWe report ground-based spectrophotometry of KIC 8462852, during its first dimming events since the end of the Kepler mission. The dimmings show a clear colour...
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NewsNORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...
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