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    Observations with the VLT suggest that black holes don’t only devour cosmic dust
    A study, in which the IAC is collaborating, obtains the most detailed observation yet of a black hole at the centre of a supermassive galaxy. The results...
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    Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron
    Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
    An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
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    Observers find two stars so close together that they will end up by merging into one very massive star
    A study of the binary system “MY Camelopardalis” published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are formed by the merging...
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    Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed
    A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process...
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    ODISEA ESPACIAL
    El IAC participa en la concepción y desarrollo de la carga útil científica de la misión Planck para el estudio del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas
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    Old stars live longer than we thought
    The type of stars we refer to, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, officially up to now the objects which have suffered the greatest loss of mass. But the...
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    On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves
    Combining computer observations and simulations, a new model shows that the presence of neutrals in the gas facilitates the magnetic fields to penetrate through...
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    One of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealed
    A study published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy and which questions current models of structure formation in the universo is base don data obtained...