Audience: General public

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    The splendour of the Seven Sisters
    This picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC...
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    The star formation rate evolution of low-mass galaxies as seen by OTELO
    We present the analysis of a sample of Halpha, Hbeta and [OII] emission line galaxies from the OTELO survey, with masses typically below log(M */Msun) = 9.4 and...
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    The structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed
    A Master’s degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra...
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    The Subsecretary of Science and Innovation visits the Canary Islands Observatories
    On June 28th and 29th, the Undersecretary of Science and Innovation, Carlos Marco Estellés, and his Chief of Technical Cabinet, Tomás Fraile Santos, visited the...
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    The Sun revealed
    Today saw the closure in Arrecife (Lanzarote) of the IV SOLARNET Meeting "The Sun, from its interior to its outer atmosphere" at which the international...
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    The support structure of the LST-2 at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory is completed
    The four large sized telescopes of the CTAO on La Palma reach a key milestone in their construction The LST-2 telescope has successfully completed the...
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    The surface of asteroid Bennu: dark, rough and dense with boulders
    Between August and December 2018, during the Approach and Preliminary Survey phases of the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, a series of images and spectra of the...
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    The synchronized dance of the Magellanic Clouds star formation history
    According to the current theories of galaxy formation, these generally form as small entities that grow through fusion, collision and accretion, eventually...
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    The Teide Observatory opens its doors to the public on the weekend of June 21–22
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) invites the public to visit the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) during the weekend of 21 and 22 June...