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The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!
A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...
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NewsThe mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solvedA study carried out by a team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown that an unusual thin structure of stars, recently...
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NewsThe natural brightness of the night skyA recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
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NewsThe nature of an extreme B supergiant in Cygnus2MASS J20395358+4222505 is an obscured early B supergiant near the massive OB star association Cyg OB2. Despite its bright infrared magnitude (Ks= 5.82) it has...
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NewsThe new IATec building is inaugurated in La LagunaA building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
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NewsThe only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzedThe study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply...
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NewsThe origin of the brightest stars in any Galaxy lies in stellar mergersMassive stars, those over ten times heavier than our Sun, are the conduits of most elements of the periodic table and drive the morphological and chemical...
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NewsThe origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identifiedAn international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC...
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NewsThe phosphorus that came from the starsAll chemical elements in the Universe (except for H and most of the He) have been made in stellar interiors. But among those elements, the ones that allowed to...