IN FAVOUR OF A DARK SKY

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  • Imagen de portada del libro ‘Eclipses. El Sol y sus eclipses en la ciencia, la historia y las artes’ /
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    Eva Villaver participa en la presentación del libro ‘Eclipses. El Sol y sus eclipses en la ciencia, la historia y las artes’
    Los seres humanos han seguido los movimientos regulares del Sol y la Luna desde las civilizaciones más remotas y a lo largo y ancho del planeta Tierra. Ocasionalmente, el Sol se oscurecía o la Luna se teñía de rojo y esto dio lugar a múltiples interpretaciones más o menos disparatadas. A menudo estos eventos se consideraron como signos de malos augurios, aunque también inspiraron mitos de carácter más lúdico e incluso amoroso. Con ocasión de los tres eclipses solares que serán visibles desde España en 2026, 2027 (totales) y 2028 (anular) y que constituyen una tríada astronómica excepcional
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  • Artist’s impression of the TOI-201 exoplanetary system
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    The IAC is involved in confirming the existence of an always-changing multi-planet system
    An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), has confirmed the existence of three bodies orbiting the dynamic exoplanetary system TOI-201. They include a super-earth (TOI-201 d), a warm Jupiter (TOI-201 b) and a brown dwarf (TOI-201 c). The paper is published in Science Advances. “The goal was to characterize the TOI-201 planetary system to understand not just what planets are there, but how they interact with each other dynamically,” said Ismael Mireles, a PhD candidate in the UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy and
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  • Imagen del sistema TOI-6894 / IAC
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    A giant planet around a tiny star
    An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, has discovered a transiting giant planet orbiting the smallest known star to host such a companion — a finding that defies current theories of planet formation. The host star, TOI-6894 , is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun , typical of the most common stars in our galaxy. Until now, such low-mass stars were not thought capable of forming or retaining giant planets. But as published today in
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