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    Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma
    The 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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    Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
    An 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...
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    Discovery of pulsations in the nitrogen-rich PG1159 star PG 1144+005
    Up to 98% of all single stars will eventually become white dwarfs - stars that link the history and future evolution of the Galaxy, and whose previous evolution...
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    Discovery of Stars Surrounded by Iron Dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    Stars with masses between one and eight times the mass of the Sun evolve along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) before ending their lives as white dwarfs. It...
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    Dissecting light bridges: the stratification of their physical properties in geometric height
    Light bridges are elongated and bright structures protruding into the umbra of sunspots. The presence of light bridges has a significant role in the evolution...
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    Does the Milky Way move like a spinning top?
    An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the...
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    Dolmens and the Equinox
    Next Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere...
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    Dos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luz
    Nuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...
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    Downflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbrae
    Umbral flashes are sudden brightenings commonly visible in the core of some chromospheric lines. Theoretical and numerical modeling suggests that they are...