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Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
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DocumentOn-line communications manual for researchersThe results of the research should also be open to the non-expert public. In this manual you will find the keys to communicate.
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EventOnline Workshop "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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NewsOrigin of stellar prolate rotation in a cosmologically simulated faint dwarfIn the current cosmological model, galaxies are formed in a hierarchical way, by merging with each other. These mergers can lead to kinematic anomalies that can...
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NewsOverabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula NebulaAn international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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DocumentPARALAJES Women in AstronomyPARALAJES Women in Astronomy deals with the role of women in astronomy, picking out important figures in the history of this science until the present day.
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NewsPedro Duque attends the “official opening” of IACTEC and presides over the Governing Council of the IACThe Minister of Science and Innovation this morning presided over the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsPost-common envelope binaries as the precursors of extremely red old starsModelling dust formation in single stars evolving through the carbon-star stage of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) (i.e., the late evolutionary stages of Sun...
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NewsPowerful winds driven by a supermassive black holeThe supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies have a basic influence on their evolution. This happens during a phase in which the black hole is...