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  • Students from IES Viera and Clavijo, participants of the ESA CANSAT programme, visit the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC)
    Students from IES Viera and Clavijo, participants of the ESA CANSAT programme, visit the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC)
  • IV Technical Conference of the Knowledge Transfer Offices
    The IAC contributes its experience at the 4th Technical Conference of Knowledge Transfer Offices
  • Feria de la Ciencia La Orotava
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participa en la Feria de la Ciencia de La Orotava
  • Claude Nicollier tells of his experience as an astronaut at the IAC / Inés Bonnet (IAC)
    Claude Nicollier tells of his experience as an astronaut at the IAC
  • El director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, recibió al embajador de Japón en España, Takahiro Nakamae. / Inés Bonet (IAC)
    El embajador de Japón en España visita el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • TOI-2768 b is a Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 7.41 Earths, it takes 1.5 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.027 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2024.
    Several Neptune-like planets discovered in a theoretically barren region
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