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    Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
    An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that...
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    Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model
    A group of astrophysicists led by Mireia Montes, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered the largest and most diffuse...
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    TESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
    With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
    An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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    The IAC successfully integrates the scientific detector into FRIDA, a new high-resolution instrument for the Grantecan
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully completed the integration of the scientific detector into the FRIDA (inFRared Imager and...
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    The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified
    An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC...
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    Visita del embajador de Japón
    El embajador de Japón en España, Kenji Hiramatsu, visitó ayer el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y los Observatorios de Canarias, junto con Masahiro...