On the night of 5th of October a star in the sky “was switched off”. Triton, the largest of the moons of Neptune, at some 4,500 million kilometres from the...
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NewsTelescopes at the Canary Observatories observe the occultation of star by Triton
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NewsTellurium is detected in one of its places of origin
An international team led by a PhD student from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has identified the emission...
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NewsTemperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
H II regions are ionized nebulae associated with the formation of massive stars. They exhibit a wealth of emission lines in their spectra that form the basis...
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NewsTenerife, a knowledge-based island
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias hosts a panel debate about ways for economic and social growth, with Leif Edvinsson and Günter Koch, experts on...
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NewsTenerife, a knowledge-based island
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias hosts a panel debate about ways for economic and social growth, with Leif Edvinsson and Günter Koch, experts on...
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NewsTESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
From a single bright star in the constellation of Indus, an international team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham, with the participation of...
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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsTesting Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observations
We perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
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NewsTesting fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...