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Global Gaia campaign reveals secrets of stellar pair
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CA
The study investigates an unusual brightening of a star. The ICCUB –IEEC astronomer Josep Manel Carrasco is one of the authors of the study.
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Cosmology
Gravitation
First day of the training course ADMIRA
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The first training day of the course Activities with Medipix detectors to investigate Radiation in the classroom, (ADMIRA project) took place on the past Friday, January 10, at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Physics.
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Particle Physics
The centenary of the discovery of the proton, in the Physics and Chemistry CRAI Library annual exhibition
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CA
At the end of the First World War, physicist Ernest Rutherford carried out a series of experiments consisting on bombing nitrogen atoms with alpha particles. He saw the appearance of a radiation which was less ionizing than those particles and with a greater range.
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Atomic-Nuclear
Particle Physics
DESI opens its 500 eyes to capture the colors of the cosmos
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CA
The night of October 22-23, 2019, a new instrument installed in a telescope in Arizona made its first light observation pointing its 5,000 eyes of optical spectra to the cosmos. The device, which will observe a record figure of galaxies and quasars, tested its unique vobservation of the Universe.
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Cosmology
Calendar of activities
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025
The year 2025 has been declared the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) to commemorate 100 years of the foundations of
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Workshops & fairs
Master and Degree students
The ICCUB in the European Researchers Night
European Researchers’ Night is a science outreach event held simultaneously in over 400 cities across 30 European countries, supported by the European Commission through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie
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A one-way ticket to eternal darkness
In this outreach talk on dark energy, we'll explore the depths of the universe to understand one of its greatest mysteries.
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Cristian Moreno, ICCUB
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Talks
Open to all
Cosmology
A new perspective on the universe with gravitational waves
In 2015, a new window was opened to observe the universe: the first signal of gravitational waves was detected on Earth. What are gravitational waves?
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Helena Ubach Raya, ICCUB
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Astroalella
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Talks
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Cosmology
Gravitation
Featured Materials
Books & Handbooks
Act. 2 ADMIRA - Personification and Modeling of the atom.
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Activity 2 ( ADMIRA project)
Guide to perform an activity of modeling the atom using cooperative work and personification, in order to introduce the students of ESO and / or the bacc
Manual
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CA
Particle Physics
Books & Handbooks
Supplementary materials - ADMIRA project
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Here you will find documents with information about Timepix, the manual of the PixetPro program and a small introduction to the nuclear physics, among others.
Manual
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CA
Other
Experimental data - ADMIRA PROJECT
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In this section you can find different data obtained with the Timepix detector in different situations. You must download the zip file corresponding to the data and unzip it.
Activity file
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CA
Particle Physics
Books & Handbooks
Act.1 ADMIRA - Initiation to Medipix. Study of Radiation and its properties. Comparison of classical and relativistic models in alpha and beta radiation.
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ACTIVITY 1:
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CA
Particle Physics
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