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    Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation, visits the Centre for Astrophysics in La Palma
    Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, visited last Wednesday the Centre for Astrophysics’ facilities in La Palma (CALP) to know the impact...
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    Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
    The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) warmly congratulate James Peebles (Princeton University...
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    Differences between the discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time
    A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active...
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    Dinamarca cede a España el liderazgo europeo en Astronomía de Posición
    La operación del telescopio "Círculo de Tránsitos Automático",instalado en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos desde 1984y actualmente propiedad del...
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    Direct coverage of the total eclipse of the Sun from KenyaRELEASE
    On 3 November the forthcoming eclipse of the Sun will be a direcly transmitted from the SibiloiNational Park on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya.The duration...
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    Discovered a new family of red giant stars with an unusual chemical composition in the Milky Way
    The results of this research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters and in which the IAC participated, suggest an extragalactic origin and will help to...
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    Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
    Its discovery, at 11.4 billion light-years, was possible thanks to the increase of the galaxy apparent brightness produced by the zoom effect of another galaxy...
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    Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
    Its discovery, at 11.4 billion light-years, was possible thanks to the increase of the galaxy apparent brightness produced by the zoom effect of another galaxy...
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    Discovered one of the brightest galaxies known
    Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of...