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NEFER: a new instrument for the GTC
This high resolution 2D spectrograph, which recently had its "first light", is a project in which the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Laboratoire d...
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NewsNew data about spiral waves detected in sunspotsAn international study, led by researchers at the IAC, reveal unknown details about the nature of a singular type of oscillatory phenomenon in spiral form...
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NewsNew data about two distant asteroids give a clue to the possible “Planet Nine”The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), suggest a possible common...
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NewsNew data from the Planck space mission give support to the current model of the universoResearchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias are participating in the science team of this project of the European Space Agency (ESA) which is...
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NewsNew data obtained about the biggest and one of the most complete Einstein ringsIn December 2020 a team from the European Space Agency (ESA) published an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of GAL-CLUS-022058s, the biggest and...
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NewsNew Earths discovered around a very small starAn international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...
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NewsNew edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"With the aim of motivating interest in scientific and technological (STEM) careers among the younger girls, and to publicise the work of the women...
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NewsNew evidence in favour of dark matter: the bars in galaxies are spinning more slowly than we thoughtA research based on observations and simulations lead by the IAC show why the fastest spinning bars are rotating most slowly because of dark matter
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NewsNew light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scalesScientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material in the universe while the remaining 5% is baryonic...