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    The GLORIA Projects introduces Personal Space, a public-domain tool for exploring the Cosmos from a laptop
    This program enables the user to establish a nexus on the web between the Universe and the significant events in the life of every person
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    The Governing Council of the IAC gives firm support to the building of the TMT on La Palma
    This was stated by the acting Minister for Science, Innovation, and the Universities, Pedro Duque who chaired the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the...
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    The Governing Council underlines the brilliant achievements of the IAC in the last 30 years
    The Institute has published, on average, a relevant new result every day
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    The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) pioneers a new technique for observing planets
    A team of American astronomers has pioneered a new method of observing exoplanets with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) that promises to give a leading role...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universe
    A study, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and carried out with OSIRIS, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)...
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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 Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids
    Last Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias observes Beethoven’s musical universe
    The Cabildos of La Palma and Tenerife, together with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) present the recording of the Eroica Symphony of Ludwig van...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet
    The spectrum acquired by GTC of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) reveals that this object has a surface composition not unlike that found in Solar System...