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News

  • Recreation of the landscape of the exoplanet Barnard b orbiting its star / Gabriel Pérez (IAC)
    IAC scientists detect a ‘sub-Earth’ orbiting Barnard’s star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun
  • Simulation illustrating the distribution of dark matter particles expected in a low-mass galaxy if the dark matter did not collide (in orange, concentrated towards the center) versus the observed dark matter (in blue, far more dispersed) / Gabriel Pérez (IAC)
    Researchers from the IAC have discovered that dark matter experiences forces beyond gravity
  • La presidenta del Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, entrega el título de Hija Predilecta a Adriana Lorenzo-Cáceres / Foto: Juanjo Velázquez (Cabildo de Tenerife)
    La investigadora del IAC, Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres Rodríguez, hija predilecta de Tenerife
  • La secretaria general de investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Eva Ortega Paíno, ha presidido esta la reunión del Consejo Rector / Inés Bonet
    El Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias propone a Eva Villaver Sobrino como nueva subdirectora del centro
  • The SONG Telescope at Teide Observatory in morning light during a full moon night. (Photo: Uli Fehr, www.fehrpics.com)
    The SONG global network is celebrating its first decade of scientific research with a conference in Tenerife.
  • The President of the Cabildo of La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez inaugurated this morning the International Conference LSST@Europe 6
    The President of the Cabildo of La Palma inaugurates the International Conference LSST@Europa 6
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  • Upcoming
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    The Whole Sun 2024 Scientific Meeting

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), 

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

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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    Spanish ALMA Days 2025

    IACTec building

    C/ Álvaro Martín Díaz, 2
    Parque Tecnológico de Las Mantecas
    CP: 38320 La Laguna
    Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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