When matter falls into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, it unleashes enormous amounts of energy and is called active galactic nuclei (or AGN...
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NewsRelativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy
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NewsResearch in the Canary Island observatories, main theme of the recent meeting of their International Scientific Committee
The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its Spanish initials) of the Canary Island Observatories offers the mechanism by which the institutions which...
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NewsResearchers have observed the heating produced in the Sun by magnetic waves
An international team in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) are participating...
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DocumentRESOLVING THE INNERMOST REGION OF THE ACCRETION DISK OF THE LENSED QUASAR Q2237+0305 THROUGH GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING
We study three high magnification microlensing events, generally recognized as probable caustic crossings, in the optical light curves of the multiply imaged...
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NewsReunión del proyecto GOYA en La Laguna
El equipo preparó las observaciones que se realizarán con el espectrógrafo EMIR instalado en el Gran Telescopio Canarias.
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NewsRocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition
Newly formed stars have protoplanetary discs around them. A fraction of the material in the disc condenses into planet-forming chunks, and the rest finally...
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NewsROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation”
He was one of the “Seven Samurai” who in 1986 published that the Milky Way, together with its neighbour galaxies, in clusters and superclusters, forms a huge...
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NewsROMANO CORRADI: “One of the best telescopes in the world had to be in one of the best sites in the world for observing the sky”
The Gran Telescopio Canarias(GTC), on the point of completing 10 years of scientific operation, is still the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world...
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NewsRotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way
An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science...