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  • Artist's impression of GJ 3998 d, a super-Earth in the habitable zone of its star
    IAC discovers a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf
  • 8M "Las mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo"
    The IAC strengthens its commitment to Equality
  • Liverpool Telescope
    Research on exoplanets and the Solar System comes to the classroom with the IAC's PETeR project
  • (From left to right) The president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez; the director of the IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet; and the executive director of the La Palma Biosphere Reserve, Alfonso Montes de Oca, during the signing of the protocol
    The IAC and the Canary, La Palma Reserve of the Biosphere Foundation unite efforts in the fight against exotic invading species
  • Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) operado por Light Bridges en el Observatorio del Teide (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias). / J.C. Casado
    The TTT3 telescope at the Teide Observatory sees its first light
  • Casiana Muñoz Tuñón, investigadora del IAC
    La investigadora del IAC Casiana Muñoz, galardonada con la Medalla de Andalucía
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    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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    One Postdoctoral Contract PLATO 2025 (PS-2025-011)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “ Helio and astero-seismology and exoplanets search ”. The contract is funded by the
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