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    Research by the IAC reveals that the Milky Way’s disc formed in two very distinct stages
    An international team, led by a pre-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered with great precision how the Milky Way...
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    Research Centres and Universities in the Canaries organize an open debate on Twitter about R+D+I, with the collaboration of ACIISI
    The rectors of the universities, the directors of the IAC and PLOCAN, the director of ACIISI, researchers, journalists, and any "tweeters" who wish, will...
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    Research in the Canary Island observatories, main theme of the recent meeting of their International Scientific Committee
    The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its Spanish initials) of the Canary Island Observatories offers the mechanism by which the institutions which...
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    Research led by the IAC reveals that massive stars inherit their composition from hidden companions
    An international team, led by a pre-doctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has revealed that the heaviest chemical elements on...
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    Research on exoplanets and the Solar System comes to the classroom with the IAC's PETeR project
    The IAC's Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) offers a new edition of its online teacher training entitled ‘ Investigate the Universe with...
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    Researchers at the IAC have discovered the fast 'fall' of two stars on black holes
    Thanks to the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), the authors have demonstrated that two companion stars orbiting black holes are indeed falling onto these black...
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    Researchers at the IAC participate in the discovery of clusters of galaxies in the early universe
    Ivan Oteo, a former student of the University of La Laguna and of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias led the international team which made the discovery...
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    Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo present today the discovery of two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three...
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    Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanet
    Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have observed with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a rare...