“Future generations have the right to an unscathed, uncontaminated Earth, including the right to a clean sky”, This statement is included in UNESCO’s...
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NewsThe first one day meeting on the protection of the sky and employment opportunities has been held
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NewsThe first “ultrahot Neptune” is discovered
A team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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NewsThe Galaxies "tune up their musical instruments"
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce a new method to make a precise analysis of the speed of the density waves which propagate in...
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NewsThe 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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NewsThe 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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NewsThe 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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NewsThe 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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NewsThe 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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NewsThe 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...