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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...
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    Discovered: the most distant barred spiral galaxy (until now)
    An international team of scientists, with participation by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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    Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma
    The Teatro Circo de Marte of this municipality of Palma will host a public talk on Wednesday about the new possibilities offered by the Cherenkov Telescope...
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    Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
    An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...
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    Discovery of a super-Earth near to the habitable zone of a cool star
    An international team led by researchers from the IAC, using the radial velocity method, have discovered a possibly rocky planet at the edge of the habitable...