Topic: Astrophysics

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    The William Herschel telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory discovers a mysterious iron “bar” in the Ring Nebula
    Research carried out with the new WEAVE spectrograph, installed on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma)...
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    The “100 Square Moons” exhibition inaugurated in Tokyo
    The Cervantes Institute in Japan plays host to this educational exhibition which brings advances in Astrophysics to society via photographs with major impact...
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    The “last breaths” in the lives of galaxies
    A team of astronomers has discovered that galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) –hosting continuously growing black holes that emit large amounts of...
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    Theoretical chemistry as an efficient tool for undestanding astrochemical transformations of fullerenes and related species
    Theoretical chemistry as an efficient tool for undestanding astrochemical transformations of fullerenes and related species Prof. Denis Sabirov Institute of...
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    Three European Doctoral Networks Join Forces in Ghent for the "Third EDUCADO Training School on Astro–AI and Machine Learning"
    From 2–6 March 2026, Ghent University will host a landmark event at the intersection of astrophysics and artificial intelligence. Jointly organized by the...
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    Tidally trapped pulsations in a close binary star system
    It has long been suspected that tidal forces in close binary stars could modify the orientation of the pulsation axis of the constituent stars. Such stars have...
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    Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
    This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
  • Project
    Traces of Galaxy Formation: Stellar populations, Dynamics and Morphology
    We are a large, diverse, and very active research group aiming to provide a comprehensive picture for the formation of galaxies in the Universe. Rooted in...
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    Two IAC projects won the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants awarded by the European Research Council
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has again shown its high quality in the field of international research. Two of its Research Professors, Carme...