Scope: Science and Technology

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    The first light pollution laboratory in the Azores
    There are now 10 sensors monitoring the night-time darkness of the island of Corvo to determine the impact of artificial lighting on the sea birds. The...
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    The first post-Kepler brightness dips of KIC 8462852
    We present a photometric detection of the first brightness dips of the unique variable star KIC 8462852 since the end of the Kepler space mission in 2013 May...
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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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    The Governing Council of the IAC gives firm support to the building of the TMT on La Palma
    This 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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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
    An 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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    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 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 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 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...