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A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars have effective surface temperatures...
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NewsA study of the whole Sun
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Synergy Grants” to a team led by Fernando Moreno Insertis, researcher at the...
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NewsA study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth
An international team of astronomers, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found an exoplanetary system formed by...
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NewsA super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical...
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NewsA “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the CSIC has found evidence of a “kilonomva”...
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NewsAfter the Kepler supernova explosion, no survivors were left behind
A study involving a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has been led by a researcher at the Instituto de Física Fundamental...
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NewsAnatomy of the impact of a protostellar jet in the Orion Nebula
An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has uncovered, with an new high degree of detail, the physical and...
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NewsAnomalous microwave emission detected from the Taurus Molecular Cloud
The QUIJOTE experiment at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) has studied the polarization of this type of emissions in one of the nearest and youngest star...
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NewsAstronomers discover a giant black hole that challenges current models of stellar evolution
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China and with the participation of the Instituto de...