The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is revolutionising our understanding on how the Milky Way, the spiral galaxy we inhabit, has formed and evolved. Gaia...
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NewsThe role of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the evolution of our Galaxy
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NewsThe star formation rate evolution of low-mass galaxies as seen by OTELO
We present the analysis of a sample of Halpha, Hbeta and [OII] emission line galaxies from the OTELO survey, with masses typically below log(M */Msun) = 9.4 and...
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NewsThe surface of asteroid Bennu: dark, rough and dense with boulders
Between August and December 2018, during the Approach and Preliminary Survey phases of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, a series of images and spectra of the...
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NewsThe synchronized dance of the Magellanic Clouds star formation history
According to the current theories of galaxy formation, these generally form as small entities that grow through fusion, collision and accretion, eventually...
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NewsTidally trapped pulsations in a close binary star system
It has long been suspected that tidal forces in close binary stars could modify the orientation of the pulsation axis of the constituent stars. Such stars have...
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NewsUnravelling coronal bright points
When the Sun is observed in X-ray or extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, hundreds of bright and compact structures with a rounded shape and sizes similar to that...
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NewsWithin galaxy variations in the chemical composition are responsible for the fundamental relation
The so-called "fundamental metallicity relation" (FMR) has been known for almost 10 years, and it states that galaxies of the same stellar mass but larger star...
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EventXXXII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysic
The XXXII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), focusses on Galaxy Clusters. The school, to...
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NewsYoung stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe
Elliptical and lenticular galaxies (collectively called early-type galaxies) are the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe. These galaxies were built...