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A novel code for exploring the magnetic field of the solar corona
The POLMAG research group of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has released the public version of P-CORONA, a novel computer program for...
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NewsA nuclear star cluster as the fossil record of the very early stages of a star forming galaxyNuclear star clusters are dense and compact stellar systems, with sizes of a few parsecs, found at the centers of many galaxies. Their formation is thought to...
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NewsA physically motivated galaxy size definition across different state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulationsMeasuring galaxy sizes is essential for understanding how they were formed and evolved across time. However, traditional methods based on l ight concentration...
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NewsA Plague of Magnetic Spots Among the Hot Stars of Globular ClustersFor more than six decades, the quest to understand the formation of hot (about 20,000−30,000 K) extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in Galactic globular...
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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 planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf starNumerous exoplanets have been detected around Sun-like stars. These stars end their lives as white dwarfs, which should inherit any surviving planetary systems...
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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 shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron starsAccretion disks around compact objects are expected to enter an unstable phase at high luminosity. One instability may occur when the radiation pressure...
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NewsA single collision in 10 billion years could explain how dark matter is distributed within dwarf galaxiesUltra-faint dwarf galaxies, among the tiniest and faintest galaxies known, may hold the key to understanding one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries: the true...