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    Grantecan helps reveal how the black hole in the supergiant galaxy M87 shapes its mysterious filaments
    An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed and completed view yet of the mysterious filaments surrounding the giant galaxy M87. Using...
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    Grantecan helps solve the mystery behind some of the Universe's most powerful radio bursts
    A new international study, using observations from the Gran Telescopio Canarias at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, has identified a plasma...
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    GRANTECAN opens its doors to its observing nights
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias today inaugurates its website grantecan.es which will communicate the telescope with the wide public during its observing nights...
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    Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
    An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that...
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    Great researchers who have visited the IAC, at a click
    During the past 10 years important figures in the scientific world have visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Now you can enjoy the scientific...
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    GTC discovers a new Einstein cross
    The study, which has combined images from the Hubble Space Telescope with spectroscopic observations from the GTC, has confirmed the existence of a new example...
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    GTC studies the origin of the neutrino detected in the “Ice Cube” in the South Pole
    Astronomers use the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to estimate the distance of the galaxy proposed as the source that emitted the extremely energetic neutrino...
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    GUIDO MÜNCH: «En Marte pudo haber vida, de la que tal vez se podrían encontrar restos fósiles si buscásemos en el lugar apropiado”
    Entrevista publicada en IAC Noticias. N° 1- 1994. Sección "A través del prisma" Propuesto por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias al «Premio Príncipe...
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    Hallan el segundo sistema planetario más cercano a la Tierra
    A solo 11 años luz y orbitando una estrella “tranquila”, el planeta descubierto puede convertirse en un candidato para albergar vida debido a su temperatura...