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The first “ultrahot Neptune” is discovered
A team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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NewsThe Governing Council of the IAC gives firm support to the building of the TMT on La PalmaThis was stated by the acting Minister for Science, Innovation, and the Universities, Pedro Duque who chaired the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universeA study, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and carried out with OSIRIS, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxiesAn international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroidsLast Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar cometThe spectrum acquired by GTC of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) reveals that this object has a surface composition not unlike that found in Solar System...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias plays a key role in the discovery of the ring of the dwarf planet QuaoarScientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space missionThe World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...
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NewsThe hidden Universe: inauguration of the IAU SymposiumIn 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...