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    A spectrograph for exoplanet observations calibrated at the centimetre-per-second level.
    The best spectrographs are limited in stability by their calibration light source. Laser frequency combs are the ideal calibrators for astronomical...
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    A star six times larger than the Sun influenced on the "birth of the Solar System".
    Un equipo internacional liderado por astrofísicos españoles ha descubierto que el origen de algunos de los elementos radioactivos encontrados en los meteoritos...
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    A stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floor
    Stellar ejecta gradually enrich the gas out of which subsequent stars form, making the least chemically enriched stellar systems direct fossils of structures...
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    A Substantial Amount of Hidden Magnetic Energy in the Quiet Sun
    An investigation carried out at the IAC has demonstrated that the apparently non-magnetic regions of the solar photosphere (the innermost region of the...
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    A titanic interstellar medium ejection from a massive starburst galaxy
    Feedback-driven winds from star formation or active galactic nuclei might be a relevant channel for the abrupt quenching of star formation in massive galaxies...
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    A Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray View of the Transient Sky
    The development of the latest generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) over recent decades has led to the discovery of new extreme...
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    About metallicity variations in the local Galactic interstellar medium
    In this work we discuss and confront recent results on metallicity variations in the local interstellar medium, obtained from observations of H II regions by...
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    ALMA Resolves the Torus of NGC 1068
    NGC 1068 is the prototypical Seyfert 2 galaxy and a prime example for active galactic nuclei (AGN) unifying schemes. Its central engine is thought to be hidden...
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    An accurate measure of the size of dark matter haloes using the size of galaxies
    In the standard cosmological model (𝜦CDM), galaxies are merely the visible "tips of the icebergs," residing within massive, invisible cocoons of dark matter...