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The early days of the Milky Way revealed
A study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) puts a sequence to the events which gave rise to our Galaxy.
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NewsThe early sequence of events that shaped the Milky WayAmong the myriad discoveries presented in the second data release of the Gaia mission, there was an enigmatic color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Milky Way halo...
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universeThe Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope project presents the design for its construction in the Roque de los Muchachos ObservatoryScientists and engineers from the institutions making up the consortium for building the EST have met in La Palma to evaluate the end of the preparatory phase...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will be installed on La PalmaThe International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf starWe present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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NewsThe first extensive catalogue of massive stars with low metallicityA recent study, led by the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA) with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) presents the first...
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NewsThe first post-Kepler brightness dips of KIC 8462852We present a photometric detection of the first brightness dips of the unique variable star KIC 8462852 since the end of the Kepler space mission in 2013 May...