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    IAC researcher Valentín Martínez Pillet to lead the National Solar ObservatoryThe American institution is a leading centre for solar studies
    Born in Alicante, Martínez Pillet will lead the institution in the coming years while taking on the challenge of setting up the largest solar observatory in the...
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    IAC researchers develop accurate method to measure dark matter haloes using galaxy sizes
    A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics unveils a powerful way to determine the size of dark matter haloes—the massive, invisible structures that host...
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    IAC researchers discovered the mysterious structure of a black hole seen edge on
    The investigation is published in the latest issue of the journal 'Science'
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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 participate in the largest Milky Way study of massive runaway stars
    Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos de la Universidad de Barcelona...
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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.