Audience: General public

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    Representatives of the TMT visit the IAC and its observatories
    This week Thomas Soifer, Gregory Fahlman, and Masanori Iye, members of the Board of Governors of the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) International Observatory...
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    Reseachers find out why a supermassive black hole appears to move
    The study, carried out by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, shows that the “change in position” observed in the nucleus of the galaxy...
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    Research in the Canary Island observatories, main theme of the recent meeting of their International Scientific Committee
    The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its Spanish initials) of the Canary Island Observatories offers the mechanism by which the institutions which...
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    Researchers at the IAC participate in the discovery of clusters of galaxies in the early universe
    Ivan Oteo, a former student of the University of La Laguna and of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias led the international team which made the discovery...
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    Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three...
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    Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanet
    Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have observed with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a rare...
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    Researchers find organic material in the Antennae Galaxies
    A study led by the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Ana Monreal Ibero proves the presence of (probably) organic molecules in...
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    Researchers from the UPC and the IAC discover one of the most massive neutron stars
    Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Instituto de...
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    Researchers have observed the heating produced in the Sun by magnetic waves
    An international team in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) are participating...