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  • Artist's rendering of 2060 Chiron, an active centaur, surrounded by a faint debris disk. Bright ice deposits and active zones are visible on its surface. Credits: William D. Gonzalez Sierra of the Florida Space Institute
    The IAC puzzle out how the icy objects beyond Neptune give us clues about the formation of the Solar System
  • Imagen de grupo de la reunión anual del consorcio científico SPECULOOS, en la que participa el Premio Nobel Didier Queloz / Inés Bonet (IAC)
    La Laguna acoge la reunión anual del consorcio científico SPECULOOS, con la participación de Didier Queloz
  • Sunrise III moments before take-off in July 2024.
    The Sunrise III mission obtains data from the Sun with unprecedented resolution in space and time
  • An illustration of an M-dwarf star covered in starspots. NASA/ESA/STScI/G. Bacon.
    A team of astronomers finds clues on the magnetism of a new kind of M dwarf
  • Recreation of a burst, identified as CSS161010, in which a small black hole swallows a star. Credits: Gabriel Pérez (IAC)
    Astronomers detected a burst caused by a black hole swallowing a star
  • Omega Centauri
    IAC researchers find that the stars in Omega Centauri move under the action of a cluster of black holes
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Employment

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    One Postdoctoral Contract Low Frequency Foregrounds 2024 (PS-2024-093)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background”, within the context of low-frequency
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    One Postdoctoral Contract PLAtoSOnG 2024 (PS-2024-092)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Sismología Solar, Estelar y Búsqueda de Exoplanetas”. The contract is funded by the
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