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Virgo and LIGO, hunting for gravitational waves
The international LIGO / Virgo collaboration formed by the two detectors LIGO, in the United States, and Virgo, in Europe, leads the detection and discovery of gravitational waves.
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Marta Martín
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CA
Popularisation of Science
NÜWA, a new city on Mars
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CA
Catalan researchers lead project selected among the finalists of the Mars Society competition to develop a city on the red planet
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El premi Nobel pel descobriment del gran forat negre al centre de la Via Làctia
L'astrònom Jordi Miralda escriu sobre els Premis Nobel de Física 2020
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Jordi Miralda, ICREA-ICCUB
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Divulcat.cat
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CA
Divulgació científica
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GAIA: Revealing the history of the Milky Way by measuring 2 billion stars
The Gaia space mission is the current flagship of the European Space Agency.
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Carme Jordi, ICCUB-IEEC
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The power of the quantum: A science to shape the future
In recent years the word QUANTUM (quantum) has conquered a multitude of fields, from Marvel Science Fiction to di
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Adrián Pérez
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European Researcher's Night 2020
The European Researchers' Night is held every year on the last Friday of September in more than 300 cities in 30 countries across Europe.
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Other
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25th Science Week 2020
The 25th Science Week will take place from the 14 to 29 of November.
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Big Bang: ¿the start of everything?
As part of the "La Caixa" Function conference series at CosmoCaixa, #LiveTalks, a conversation will take place be
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Licia Verde, ICREA-ICCUB
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CA
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Virgo and LIGO, hunting for gravitational waves
The international LIGO / Virgo collaboration formed by the two detectors LIGO, in the United States, and Virgo, in Europe, leads the detection and discovery of gravitational waves.
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Marta Martín
Language
CA
Popularisation of Science
Press Radio & TV
Hector Gil on the largest 3D map of the Universe
Our researcher Héctor Gil talks at the radio show "Principio de incertidumbre" of the Extremadura radio about the largest 3D map of the Universe.
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Héctor Gil, ICCUB
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CA
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NÜWA, a new city on Mars
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CA
Catalan researchers lead project selected among the finalists of the Mars Society competition to develop a city on the red planet
Héctor Gil Marín awarded with the Young Researcher Award in Theoretical Physics by the Spanish Royal Physics Society.
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CA
ICCUB researcher Héctor Gil Marín wins the Young Researcher Award in Theoretical Physics awarded annually by the Royal Spanish Physical Society
Dr. Santiago del Palacio wins the Carlos M. Varsavsky 2020 Prize
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CA
The thesis "Radiación no térmica asociada a estrellas de gran massa", defended by Dr. Santiago del Palacio in 2018 under the direction of the researcher of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, Prof. Valentí Bosch-Ramón, has been selected by the jury appointed by the Associació Argentina de Astronomía, the organizing body.
First calibrated XP spectra
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Agència Espacial Europea (ESA)
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CA
Gaia has proven to be a powerful tool providing very precise astrometry and photometry in the first releases of the mission (see Gaia DR2 and Gaia DR1). The third release and beyond (find here the current release scenario planning) will include some calibrated spectrophotometric data.