An international team of researchers, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has discovered an extremely dense Neptune-sized planet...
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NewsThe densest “Neptune” ever observed
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Research Council has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Advanced Grants” to Javier Trujillo Bueno, CSIC Research Professor at the IAC
The IAC researcher and a Research Professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Javier Trujillo Bueno, has managed to win an ERC...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever
Thanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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TalkThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting
Gaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way...
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NewsThe exhibition “AstrónomAs” which gives visibility to women in Astronomy has arrrived in Tenerife
It can be visited in the Museum of Science and the Cosmos until 22nd May. Next Wednesday, April 6th, there will be an inauguration ceremony with the women...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf star
We present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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TalkThe first Giga-years of the Milky Way halo and its satellites told by RRLs
The first Gigayears of our Galactic halo can be probed by using ancient stellar populations as traced by RR Lyrae stars. Today, with the advancement in our...