The claimed detection of a diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter represents a possible challenge to our understanding of the properties of these galaxies and...
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NewsA distance of 13 Mpc resolves the claimed anomalies of the galaxy lacking dark matter
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NewsA dwarf irregular galaxy caught in transition
Leo I is one of the youngest dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies in the Local Group. Its relative isolation, extended and complex star formation history (SFH), and...
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NewsA galaxy which outshines the rest
Gas is essential to the process of forming a galaxy. During the first stages the amount of gas present determines the number of stars which will be in the...
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NewsA giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
Surveys have shown that super-Earth and Neptune-mass exoplanets are more frequent than gas giants around low-mass stars, as predicted by the core accretion...
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NewsA giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
An international team of astrophysicists that includes researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has...
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NewsA giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda galaxy
The combination of a white dwarf mass close to the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 solar masses) and a fast hydrogen accretion rate (10 -7 solar masses per year) from...
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NewsA giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside the Solar System, most of which orbit stars that will eventually evolve into red giants and then into...
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NewsA large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...
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NewsA look at the subatomic world from the IAC
The second edition of the conference on Particle Physics, HC2NP2019, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, will take place next week in Puerto...