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    Successful test on La Palma of a new adaptive optics technique for very large telescopes
    The experiment, with a sodium laser, was performed from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, owing to the exceptional quality of its sky
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    Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
    A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...
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    Sueño con hacer un censo de cuásares con OSIRIS en zonas que todavía nadie ha exploradoPrimeros Encuentros Astrofísicos Blas Cabrera: El Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) y sus instrumentos de Día Uno
    ENTREVISTA CON: José Ignacio González
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    Sunrise abandona la Tierra para ver mejor el Sol
    · Esta mañana poco antes de las ocho y media, hora local, ha sido lanzado con éxito el experimento Sunrise en un globo estratosférico desde el Centro Espacial...
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    Sunrise sobrevive a su aterrizaje en Canadá
    Los discos duros con los datos científicos del experimento Sunrise fueron recuperados el pasado viernes a última hora en la isla canadiense de Somerset. Se ha...
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    Super-Earth found!
    A planet barely larger than the Earth has just been discovered by the CoRoT satellite. Its temperature is so high (between 1000 and 1,500 degrees) that its...
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    Superbubbles in the interstellar medium
    Their detection in the interacting galaxies, the “Antennae”, was possible thanks to a new method –BUBBLY- developed by IAC researchers and the GHaFaS instrument...
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    Superbubbles in the interstellar medium
    Their detection in the interacting galaxies, the “Antennae”, was possible thanks to a new method –BUBBLY- developed by IAC researchers and the GHaFaS instrument...
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    Supermassive black holes change the central regions of galaxies
    Cristina Ramos Almeida, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has led research which used data from the ALMA telescope in Chile to...