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    A supernova that may not be one, and other scientific results from the first day of the V International Conference "Science with the GTC"
    Astrophysics has been the main theme of the first day of the conference "Science with the GTC", that is held in Puebla (México). This is a multidisciplinary...
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    A SURPRISING UNIVERSE with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    On Wednesday 20th April there was a scientific outreach event where several astronomers showed us some of the mysteries of the Universe
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    A system of globular clusters in the disc of a galaxy detected for the first time
    The OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) has discovered, on the spiral galaxy Messier 106, a system of globular clusters whose unusual...
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    A system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the sky
    The exoplanets closest to us offer the best opportunities to make a detailed study of their physical properties, including the search for life outside the Solar...
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    A team of astronomers finds clues on the magnetism of a new kind of M dwarf
    A team of astronomers led by ICE-CSIC analyzed for the first time a long radio-observation of a scallop-shell star in a pioneer study. The team observed the...
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    A team with the participation of the IAC and the ULL discovers that massive stars prefer to live in pairs even in galaxies with low metallicity
    Massive stars in metal-poor galaxies often have close partners, just like the massive stars in our metal-rich Milky Way. This has been discovered by an...
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    A week of astronomical activities in the municipality of Garafía
    August arrived again, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in the festival to honour our Lady the Virgin of Light in the town of...
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    A week of “Black holes”
    The International Scientific Conference La Gomera Accretion Week 2017, dealing with extremely compact stellar objects, which lasted from 11 to 15th September...
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    A week to go deeper into some of the more “ghostly” structures in the Universe
    Tenerife will host a meeting of the International Astronomical Union with over a hundred specialists from all over the world, at which there will be discussion...