Audience: Communications media

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    Stars from the world of literature “touch the sky” at the La Palma Observatory
    The participants in the first Hispanoamerican Festival of Authors yesterday visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, invited by the Instituto de...
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    Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
    The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
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    Stars shrouded in iron dust
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high...
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    Students from La Palma measure the darkness at night over the island
    Their results were presented this morning at the “Preserving the Skies” conference held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Starlight Declaration
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    Students of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017
    A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
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    Study reveals how binary stars change their stellar dance with age
    Research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered that, in binary systems, stars that evolve into red giants change the way they...
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    Study reveals that giant planets could reach "maturity" much earlier than previously thought
    An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other institutions from...
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    Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
    This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...
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    Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
    A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...