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    Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting ultra-cool star
    An international scientific team, with the participation of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a new world similar in...
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    Astronomers discover first supernova explosion of a Wolf-Rayet star
    An international study, with the participation of researchers from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan) affiliated to the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Astronomers discover how 'dead' galaxies were formed in the early UniverseThe work will be published in the latest issue of 'Nature'
    An international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), has detected the formation...
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    Astronomers discover how to feed a black hole
    The black holes at the centres of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them...
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    Astronomers discover one of the closest potentially habitable exoplanets to Earth
    An international research, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has played a leading role, has found a planet of intermediate size between...
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    Astronomers discover rapid oscillations in the light of a blazar
    The international collaboration Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, has...
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    Astronomers discover tiny galaxy with extraordinary star formation in distant Universe
    Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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    Astronomers find a black hole which rotates highly inclined to its orbit
    Astronomers have found a black hole which challenges current theoretical models for the formation of these compact objects, using telescopes at the Roque de los...
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    Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe
    Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) confirm the first detection of a relic galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope. The results of this...