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Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society
Since millennia the silent and ordered beauty of the night sky has inspired humankind in all its intellectual and emotional expressions: poetry, philosophy...
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DocumentDark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society. Report and recommendationsFrom 5 to 9 October 2020, around 1,000 people participated in the Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society Workshop, which resulted in this report and...
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NewsDAVID SOBRAL: “There is so much to be discovered about the universe that astronomy is certainly an area worth pursuing”Astronomer Dr David Sobral is on a quest to trace the origins of the Universe and understand how galaxies like our own formed and evolved from the end of the...
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NewsDetection of Methane in the Closest Extreme Metal-poor T DwarfWISEA J181006.18-101000.5 (WISE1810) is the nearest metal-poor ultracool dwarf to the Sun. It has a low effective temperature and has been classified as an...
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NewsDetection of TiO and Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65bWe present the low-resolution transmission spectra of the puffy hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b (0.53 MJup, 1.89 RJup, Teq = 1930 K), based on two transits observed using...
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NewsDifferences between the discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first timeA study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active...
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NewsDiscovery of a massive black hole companion to a B-type star from radial velocity measurementsAll stellar-mass black holes have hitherto been identified by X-rays emitted from gas that is accreting onto the black hole from a companion star. These systems...
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NewsDiscovery of a transiting hot water-world candidate orbiting Ross 176 with TESS and CARMENESThe TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has discovered many exoplanet candidates that need to be confirmed and characterized from the ground...
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NewsDiscovery of a young forming planet around the nearby star AU MicAU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years . AU Mic possesses a...