The specialized Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) is publishing today, in its on-line version, a study led by the Institute of Astrophysics of...
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NewsFound: the lost generation of stars in globular clusters which stellar evolution models had predicted
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NewsGalactic Archaeology
An international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has...
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NewsGalaxies like Russian dolls
Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...
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NewsGalaxies like Russian dolls
Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...
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NewsHeaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
An international team of astronomers, in which IAC researchers participate, have discovered barium, the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere...
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NewsHeavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) have discovered the remains of a planet inside a disc of...
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NewsHelium signal reveals the comet-like tail of exoplanet WASP-69b for the first time
An international group of scientist led by researches from the IAC detect the evaporation of atmospheric helium on the giant exoplanet WASP-69b.
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NewsHow solar prominences vibrate
An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has cataloged around 200...
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NewsIAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that shouldn’t really exist
Its very low content of metals, and specifically of carbon, put in question the current models of low mass star formation in the early universe