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    The Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the Forum of Women Scientists and Technologists of the Canary Islands
    The meeting, which will take place on Friday 1 March at 18:00, is being held on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and...
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    The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!
    A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...
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    The natural brightness of the night sky
    A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
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    The nature of an extreme B supergiant in Cygnus
    2MASS J20395358+4222505 is an obscured early B supergiant near the massive OB star association Cyg OB2. Despite its bright infrared magnitude (Ks= 5.82) it has...
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    The new IATec building is inaugurated in La Laguna
    A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
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    The ninth edition of the AEACI promotes astronomy education once more
    Under the theme "Other Worlds", this edition highlighted the latest discoveries and advances in research on extrasolar planets, the Solar System and...
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    The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory
    The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
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    The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias or GRANTECAN has surpassed, for the first time, the 10,000 face-to-face visits. The forecast is that by the end of the year there...
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    The online training by PETeR reaches 180 teachers from all over Spain
    This project of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias allows the educational community in Spain to carry out their own research on the universe using...