Scope: Science and Technology

  • News
    Sibling sub-Neptunes around sibling M dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
    Sub-Neptunes - planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - are the most common type of planet in our Galaxy, yet they are entirely absent from our own...
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    Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holes
    The researchers Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
    The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
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    Solving the enigma of the brightest planetary nebulae
    Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the ejecta of evolved low-intermediate mass stars present in all stellar systems. Perhaps the easiest thing to do when studying PNe...
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    Solving the paradox of the enigmatic solar sodium D1 line polarization
    In 1998 the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization (a particular property of light) that had been recently...
  • Publishing
    Special 1998. X Winter School of Astrophysics "Globular Clusters".
    The IAC, with the collaboration of the European Commission (Framework Programme TMR, Training and Mobility of Researchers) and the company Iberia, has organized...
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    Special issue 1999. XI Winter School of Astrophysics "Galaxies at high red shift"
    The IAC, with the collaboration of the European Commission (Improving Human Research Potential Programme, IHP) and the company Iberia, has organised the XI...
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    Special issue Scientific Meetings 1998
    The IAC organised six scientific meetings in the Canary Islands in 1998. Two international congresses, three Euroconferences and the III Scientific Meeting of...