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    The helium enrichment in massive stars during the main sequence could be the result of mass accretion
    There is increasing evidence that single-star evolutionary models are unable to reproduce all of the observational properties of massive stars. Binary...
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    The hidden Universe: inauguration of the IAU Symposium
    In the University of La Laguna today the conference of the International Astronomical Union about the diffuse light in the sky, organized by the Instituto de...
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    The HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way
    An international study, using the high-speed HiPERCAM camera, installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), has determined for the first time the mass and...
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    The History of the Sun and Climate Change
    Measurements of the Earth's surface temperature indicate that the Earth has undergone considerable warming in the last hundred years, probably due to the...
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    The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the most distant star ever observed
    An international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), participated in the...
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    The IAC and ESA sign an agreement to widen the programmes of connection and transmission of optical data at the Teide Observatory
    By virtue of this agreement, signed today at ESA’s European Centre of Space Research and Technology (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, (The Netherlands), Tenerife will...
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    The IAC and February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
    During the month of February, women researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in lectures, workshops and debates to publicize...
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    The IAC and February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
    During the month of February, women researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in lectures, workshops and debates to publicize...
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    The IAC and Lenovo Tenerife publicize the value of the Canary sky
    The “gold and black” basketball club yesterday presented its strip designs, inspired by the Canary sky, at an publicity event held at the Aguere Cultural Centre...