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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 galaxy recorded until now. The study has been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, and has used data taken with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Green Bank Radiotelescope (GBT). Nube is an almost invisible dwarf galaxy discovered by an international research team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the University of La Laguna (ULL) and other institutions. The name was
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An international scientific team, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected distortions in the brightness of a galaxy's disc that could be explained by the gravitational effect of an unknown neighbouring galaxy. Named GTC-1, the satellite galaxy was discovered using ultra-deep images obtained with the OSIRIS camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. The finding provides a possible explanation for a puzzle about way the light fades out at the edges of galaxy disks, a mystery that has bothered the
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El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad con la creación, en 2008, de una comisión específica El Instituto de Astrofísica de Catarís (IAC) reivindica este 8 de Marzo el papel de las instituciones científicas como locomotora de los cambios sociales y demuestra su compromiso con la Igualdad. El IAC fue pionero en la implementación de políticas de Igualdad, adelantándose a las medidas obligatorias por las distintas leyes. Los primeros pasos en materia de iniciativas orientadas a la igualdad de género se iniciaron en 2008 con la
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