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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 new “Einstein ring” is discoveredThis unusual phenomenon, predicted by the theory of General Relativity, was discovered by chance by a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsA new, potentially inhabitable super-EarthResearchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the...
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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU MicAn international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...
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NewsA predoctoral researcher at the IAC receives a STEP Grant from The Planetary SocietyThe Planetary Society , the largest independent organization dedicated to space exploration—founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman— has...
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NewsA primitive stellar structure helps us to unravel the earliest phases of the Milky WayJust as archaeology examines the ground with great care to find valuable objects which helps us to get to know ancient civilizations, astronomers look at the...
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NewsA promising future for the Canary Island ObservatoriesFrom 11th to 13th November the conference “Future Instruments for the Telescopes of the Canary Observatories”, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the SunThe detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...
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NewsA rocky super-earth has been found in the habitable zone of a cool star close to the SunThe detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a...