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    A galaxy which outshines the rest
    Gas is essential to the process of forming a galaxy. During the first stages the amount of gas present determines the number of stars which will be in the...
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    A gamma ray burst observed in unprecedented detail
    A study which will be published tomorrow in Nature magazine and in which IAC researchers have participated, with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER...
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    A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
    An international team of astrophysicists that includes researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has...
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    A huge superbubble observed in an interacting galaxy
    Research led by Artemi Camps, who started it while he was studying for his doctorate in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna...
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    A large tidal stream observed in the Sombrero galaxy
    According to the latest cosmological models, large spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way grew by absorbing smaller galaxies, by a sort of galactic cannibalism...
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    A lower limit to the accretion disc radius in the active galactic nucleus NGC 1052
    Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) are found in about 1/3 of all the galaxies in the Local Universe, establishing the most numerous class of AGNs...
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    A mechanism for removing dark matter from galaxies has been found
    The small fraction of dark matter in the galaxy NGC1052-DF4 has worried the astronomical community for several years. Now a team of researchers from the...
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    A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
    We detect a transiting rocky planet with an orbital period of 1.467 days around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486. The planet Gliese 486 b is 2.81 Earth...
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    A new chapter in the series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky”
    To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we publish the fourth chapter in the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling...