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ExoClock project
From 6 to 9 June, IACTEC is hosting the consortium meeting of the European Space Agency's Ariel mission, dedicated to the characterisation of exoplanet...
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NewsExogeneous material found on the surface of asteroids Ryugu and BennuThe two near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, primary targets of the Hayabusa2 (JAXA) and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) space missions, keep surprising us. In two companion...
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GalleryExoplanetary Systems and Solar System
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ProjectExoplanets and AstrobiologyThe search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active...
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NewsExploring a new definition of the green valley and its implicationsGalaxy formation remains one of the major open problems in astrophysics today. There is a wide range of mechanisms that control the transformation of gas into...
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NewsExploring the atmosphere of GJ 1132 b with CRIRES+The rocky planet GJ 1132 b, with Earth-like mass and radius, is a prime candidate for atmospheric studies. Previous observations with Hubble and JWST yielded...
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NewsExtragalactic archaeology provides new clues about the formation of the galaxiesAn international review article in which IAC researcher Jesús Falcón Barroso is a contributor, explains how the study of stellar populations in galaxies outside...
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NewsExtreme magnification of a distant star by a galaxy-cluster lensGalaxy-cluster gravitational lenses can magnify background galaxies by a total factor of up to ~50. Here we report an image of an individual star at redshift z ...
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NewsFast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole from La PalmaThis is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which...