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Diana Morant visits the IAC Headquarters
The Minister of Science and Innovation this morning presided over the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsDidier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton TelescopeThe Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) warmly congratulate James Peebles (Princeton University...
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NewsDIEGO BLAS: “We are in a golden period when the connection between theory and observations is increasingly necessary"The gravitational force needed for the universe to evolve from when it was almost uniform, during the Big Bang, until galaxies, stars, and planets were formed...
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NewsDifferences between the discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first timeA study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active...
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NewsDiscovered a new family of red giant stars with an unusual chemical composition in the Milky WayThe results of this research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters and in which the IAC participated, suggest an extragalactic origin and will help to...
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NewsDiscovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far knownIts discovery, at 11.4 billion light-years, was possible thanks to the increase of the galaxy apparent brightness produced by the zoom effect of another galaxy...
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NewsDiscovered one of the brightest galaxies knownThanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of...
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NewsDiscovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La PalmaThe Teatro Circo de Marte of this municipality of Palma will host a public talk on Wednesday about the new possibilities offered by the Cherenkov Telescope...
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NewsDiscovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool starAn international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...