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Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy
There is a force hidden deep inside galaxies: magnetic fields. Invisible to conventional telescopes, they are a factor in galaxy evolution, regulating the...
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NewsMaking the Hubble’s deepest images even deeperIt has taken researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias almost three years to produce the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space, by...
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NewsMapping solar magnetic fields from the photosphere to the coronaThe solar chromosphere is the region between the relatively thin and cold photosphere (temperature of a few thousand degrees) and the hot and extended corona...
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NewsMapping the hidden magnetic field of the quiet SunThe Sun is the only star where we can resolve the intricate magnetism that all convective stars harbor. Yet, more than 99% of its visible surface along the...
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NewsMapping the Magnetic Field in the Chromosphere of Solar Active RegionsThe magnetic field in the solar chromosphere plays a key role in the heating of the outer solar atmosphere and in the build-up and sudden release of energy in...
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NewsMARGARET BURBIDGE: "Los cuásares no están tan lejos como se pensaba"Margaret Burbidge y su marido, Geoffrey Burbidge, forman el matrimonio de científicos más conocido del mundo de la Astronomía. A lo largo de su vida han...
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NewsMARIA BERGEMANN: “Miniscule changes in physical properties of late-type stars may have radical effects on the emitted radiation spectra”Maria Bergemann, astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany), is one of the invited professors at the XXIX Canary Islands...
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NewsMARIO VARGAS LLOSA: “We must bring literature closer to the stars!”The Nobel Laureate for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, accompanied by his partner Isabel Preysler, visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La...
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NewsMARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...