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    IAC Researchers explain the “excess” of Rubidium observed in dying stars
    A new stellar model atmosphere, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, puts an end to the apparent disagreement between theory and...
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    IAC researchers find that the stars in Omega Centauri move under the action of a cluster of black holes
    Omega Centauri is a large globular cluster, containing almost ten million stars, in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus, which has been studied to...
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    IAC researchers find young blue stars in a dwarf elliptical galaxy of the local group
    The observation of recent star formation in the galaxy NGC 187 contradicts the scheme established in the 1940s by the distinguished astronomer Walter Baade...
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    IAC Researchers show that a black hole was created following the explosion of a supermassive star
    After detecting the remains of a violent thermonuclear explosion in a star that now orbits a black hole in our Galaxy, IAC researchers, using the Keck Telescope...
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    IAC researchers will participate in the XIth Physics Students Conference at the University of La Laguna.
    Antonia María Varela and Héctor Socas will take part in the round-table discussion on Outreach to be held on the second day.
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    IAC scientists complete an unprecedented study of the masses of over 500 clusters of galaxies
    A team of researchers from the cosmology group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has obtained one of the most accurate measurements of the masses of...
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    IAC scientists detect a ‘sub-Earth’ orbiting Barnard’s star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun
    The single star nearest to the Sun is called Barnard’s star. A team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has recently detected...
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    IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
    An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
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    IAC Scientists participate in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to study an old asteroid
    The launch of the OSIRIS-REx probe, planned for 8th September, will study Bennu, one of the oldest asteroids in the Solar System. It could yield clues to its...