Thanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever
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TalkThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting
Gaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf star
We present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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TalkThe first Giga-years of the Milky Way halo and its satellites told by RRLs
The first Gigayears of our Galactic halo can be probed by using ancient stellar populations as traced by RR Lyrae stars. Today, with the advancement in our...
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NewsThe first image of a new gaseous component in a planetary nebula.
These results, published by a team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, and obtained using the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS...
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NewsThe first images associated with a source of gravitational waves
The IAC has participated in the detection of the counterpart, in the visible, the infrared and X-rays, of the source of gravitational waves GW170817 (neutron...
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NewsThe first “ultrahot Neptune” is discovered
A team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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TalkThe formation of Milky Way-mass galactic disc structure in cosmological simulations
Recent years have seen impressive development in cosmological simulations for spiral disc galaxies like the Milky Way. I present a suite of high-resolution...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet
The spectrum acquired by GTC of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) reveals that this object has a surface composition not unlike that found in Solar System...