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    A star six times more massive than the Sun influenced the birth of the Solar System
    An international team led by Spanish astrophysicists has discovered that the origin of some of the radioactive elements found in the most primitive meteorites...
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    A stargazers’ festival
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) are collaborating in Astrofest La Palma 2018, a big festival of events...
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    A stellar first showing of the new film by Mateo Gil “The Laws of Thermodynamics”
    The première will be in the Gran Telescopio de Canarias, and there will be two special showings, one in the University of La Laguna, and the other in the Museum...
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    A Stellar Marriage Doomed to End in a Catastrophic Divorce
    A study published today in the journal Nature, based on observations with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), shows, for the first time, how a type Ia supernova...
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    A step forward to solve the mystery of ultra-diffuse galaxies
    A study by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), led by researchers Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Trujillo and Johan H. Knapen, reveals that the enigmatic...
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    A study of the whole Sun
    The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Synergy Grants” to a team led by Fernando Moreno Insertis, researcher at the...
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    A study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth
    An international team of astronomers, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated, has found an exoplanetary system formed by...
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    A study shows that “water worlds” could be as common as Earths
    Research led by the University of Chicago and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown the existence of exoplanets with water and rock around...
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    A study shows the unexpected effect of black holes beyond their own galaxies
    At the heart of almost every sufficiently massive galaxy there is a black hole whose gravitational field, although very intense, affects only a small region...