IN FAVOUR OF A DARK SKY

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  • Roberta Zanin, responsable científica del CTAO; Valentín Martínez Pillet, director del IAC; y Juan Ramón Felipe San Antonio, vicepresidente del Cabildo de La Palma.
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    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory will host the inauguration of the four CTAO LST telescopes in October
    El Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) , el futuro observatorio de astronomía de rayos gamma más grande y potente del mundo, continúa su avance constante hacia su fase de operaciones iniciales. En una rueda de prensa conjunta celebrada en Santa Cruz de La Palma, Islas Canarias (España), representantes de la Organización Central del CTAO (CTAO ERIC), la Colaboración LST del CTAO , el Cabildo de La Palma y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) se reunieron para destacar el avance del proyecto hacia una ciencia pionera. Este progreso está marcado por la próxima inauguración de
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  • Milky Way-like galaxies from the BEARD project
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    The first results of the BEARD project explain the survival of our Galaxy
    The international BEARD project, led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has used data from several telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, and computer simulations to explain how galaxies similar to the Milky Way have managed to survive the most violent stages of the history of the Universe. The present model for the evolution of the universe predicts an epoch dominated by important mergers of galaxies some ten thousand million years ago. “It’s a case of violent interactions, in which it is foreseeable that weak structures
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  • Artist's impression of the HD 114082 planetary system
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    IAC y ULL led the identification of the longest orbital period exoplanets among those transiting young stars
    An international collaboration of astronomers led by the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has identified two intriguing, humongous but light planets orbit ing HD 114082. This star is only 15 million years old, this is, much younger than the Sun (4.6 billion years old) , spin s 15 times faster , has 28% more mass , and is about one thousand degrees hotter and almost four times more luminous. Its planets receive about 200 times more light and heat than Jupiter. The study, which involved separating the faint planetary signal from the stellar one
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