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TESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
Earlier this year, a team of astrophysicists has revealed new insights on an ancient collision that our galaxy the Milky Way underwent with another smaller...
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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first timeWith data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsTesting Einstein's equivalence principle at early cosmological epochs with quasar observationsWe perform a new test of Einstein's Equivalence Principle which, for the first time, extends to very early cosmological epochs (we have studied its validity in...
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NewsTesting fundamental physics with ESPRESSOMany of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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NewsTesting the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhoodBlazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
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DocumentTHE "WINTER" COMES OF AGEThe Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics comes of age.
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NewsThe agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signedThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has diedProfessor Guido Münch was the first astronomer to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1989 for which he was...
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NewsThe atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysedThe combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on...