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    Award of the Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize for Astrophysics
    Serzh Sargsyan, President of the Republic of Armenia, will present the award to Garik Israelian, a researcher at the Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias (IAC)...
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    Awarding of the "Jules Janssen" prize of the French Astronomical Society to Suzy Collin-Zahn and to Rafael Rebolo
    Mike Simmons, director of Astronomers without borders will also receive the "Gabrielle and Camille Flammarion Prize". The ceremony will take place tomorrow...
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    Battle of the Titans: Two Black Holes in ActionScience with the GTC
    With the Canaricam instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), a team of researchers known as ‘Los Piratas’ have caught a system of two galaxies fused...
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    Beatriz Villarroel is awarded the L’Oréal-Unesco Prize for Women in Science
    Every year the L’Oréal Foundation and Unesco recognize five importan women scientists from the five continents. This year, for its 25th edition, the...
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    Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyse large scale cosmic...
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    Big Data: its use in real life
    On Friday 9th November the Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will move to the Museum of Science and the Cosmos with a lectura about the...
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    BigSkyEarth Conference: AstroGeoInformatics
    On December 17th, 18th, and 19th the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna(ULL) are organizing a series of lectures on the...
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    Birth of lonely giant planets observedSpanish and German astronomers are to report today in "Science", on their discovery of isolated giant planets undergoing formation
    Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), the California Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, co-ordinated...
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    Blind date with the Perseids
    This year the meteor shower will produce its maximum activity during the night of August 12th to 13th, although the full moon will hamper the observations