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    First images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
    After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
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    First science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.
    GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...
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    Found: the lost generation of stars in globular clusters which stellar evolution models had predicted
    The specialized Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) is publishing today, in its on-line version, a study led by the Institute of Astrophysics of...
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    Four years with SONG
    The IAC is organizing a conference in Tenerife about the first four years of Science with the Hertzsprung SONG telescope, the first in an international network...
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    FRIDA - inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics
    FRIDA (inFRared Imager and Dissector for Adaptive optics) is an integral field spectrograph in the near infrared, also with image mode, which will be installed...
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    Galactic Archaeology
    An international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has...
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    Galactic cirri in deep optical imaging
    The ubiquitous presence of Galactic cirri in deep optical images represents a major obstacle to study the low surface brightness features of extragalactic...
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    Galaxies like Russian dolls
    Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...
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    Galaxies like Russian dolls
    Jairo Méndez Abreu and Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres, researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered a peanut-shaped structure in...