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    SOHO consigue escudriñar el corazón del Sol
    Un equipo internacional de astrofísicos ha detectado una señal que correspondería a la huella de los modos gravitatorios del Sol, buscados desde los orígenes de...
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    Solar physicists build a 2D model which can explain the bright points in the solar corona
    A numerical experiment conducted by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Daniel Nöbrega Siverio and Fernando Moreno Insertis, has...
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    Solved the mystery of the distribution of oxygen in outer areas of the Milky Way
    A team led by a researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has accurately measured the variation of oxygen abundance along the disc of our...
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    Solved: one of the mysteries of globular clusters
    A study shows that the most massive stars in the last stages of their lives are those which contaminate the interstellar medium with new chemical elements...
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    Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed
    The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is concentrated in...
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    Soñando Estrellas aborda “Astroaccesible”, un proyecto para acercar la ciencia a las personas con discapacidad visual
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) emitió este jueves, 26 de febrero, a las 22:30 horas, su espacio radiofónico ‘Soñando Estrellas’ en La Radio...
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    Spain and Japan agree on the installation of four new telescopes on the island of La Palma
    The telescopes may form part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array in the Northern Hemisphere (CTA-North) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.
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    Spain, Slovakia and the Czech Republic take the Lead in Europe’s Next-Generation Solar Telescope
    The European Solar Telescope (EST) project has taken a decisive step towards construction with the establishment of the Board of Governmental Representatives...
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    Spanish researchers discover the first  black hole orbiting a ‘spinning’ star
    The discovery of this striking pair is published today in Nature