Topic: Astrophysics

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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias has contributed to the discovery of one of the faintest dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has contributed to the discovery of And XXXVI, a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy situated in the vicinity of...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids
    Last 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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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias observes the closest “Little Red Dot,” shedding light on how the first black holes grew
    An international team led by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, and including scientists from the Instituto de...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet
    The 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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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias plays a key role in the discovery of the ring of the dwarf planet Quaoar
    Scientists 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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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
    The 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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    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...