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  • Image of Deimos with Mars on the background, obtained with the HyperScout-H instrument on board the Hera spacecraft
    Hera mission flies by Mars on its way to Didymos and captures unique images of its moons
  • 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
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