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  • Taking office of the Director of the IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC)
    Valentin Martínez Pillet takes office as Director of the IAC
  • Illustration of the UNDARK project
    The IAC aims to illuminate the dark side of the universe with the UNDARK project
  • Begoña García Lorenzo
    IAC Researcher Begoña García new coordinator of the Network of Astronomical Infrastructures
  • Artist's impression of the ANDES instrument on the ELT. Credit: ESO
    The agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signed
  • A large white machine with two big doors (polishing machine for large surfaces) in a white room with high ceilings (IACTEC's south clean room).
    The IAC moves towards becoming a global benchmark in the manufacture of optical elements
  • Artist’s concept of Gliese 12 b
    Astronomers discover one of the closest potentially habitable exoplanets to Earth
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    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), 

    San Cristóbal de La Laguna, S/C de Tenerife, Spain

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