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News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017
Several telescopes of the Canary Island Observatories are studying this controversial star in a coordinated campaign involving over a hundred professional and...
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NewsNightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanetUltrahot giant exoplanets receive thousands of times Earth’s insolation. Their high-temperature atmospheres (greater than 2,000 kelvin) are ideal laboratories...
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NewsNon-grey dimming events of KIC 8462852 from GTC spectrophotometryWe report ground-based spectrophotometry of KIC 8462852, during its first dimming events since the end of the Kepler mission. The dimmings show a clear colour...
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NewsNORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...
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NewsNube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter modelA group of astrophysicists led by Mireia Montes, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered the largest and most diffuse...
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NewsObserved: an exoplanet where it rains ironNature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsObserved: an occultation of a brown dwarf by anotherAn 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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NewsObservers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fedA team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process...