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  • The Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
    The Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
  • El LST-2 completa la instalación de su estructura de soporte
    The support structure of the LST-2 at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory is completed
  • IAC scientists publish in Nature Astronomy a practical guide to improve proposals and applications
    IAC scientists publish in Nature Astronomy a practical guide to improve proposals and applications
  • El IAC participa en TLP Tenerife
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa en TLP Tenerife 2025 para acercar la ciencia a los jóvenes y fomentar vocaciones
  • Artistic impression of a binary system similar to KIC 10001167
    The IAC validates a method for measuring the masses of stars using their seismic waves
  • Combined image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS formed by 239 exposures of 50 seconds taken with the Two-metre Twin Telescope (TTT3) at the Teide Observatory.
    3I/ATLAS: The IAC is monitoring closely the third interstellar object detected in the Solar System
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    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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    1st UNDARK Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors with Radiowave Observations
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    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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    PS-2025-056 ONE PhD FELLOWSHIPS LIOM-CELESTE CONTRACT
    ONE PhD FELLOWSHIPS AT IAC (Ref. PS-2025-056) The IAC (Tenerife, Spain) invites applications for ONE PhD fellowship in Astrophysics in the framework of the project “LABORATORY FOR INNOVATION IN OPTO
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