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The June solstice will be broadcast from Gran Canaria
During the afternoon of Sunday 20th June, as part of the outreach activities of the Energy Efficiency Laboratories (EELabs) project, coordinated by the...
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NewsThe JWST view of the barred galaxy population in the SMACS0723 galaxy clusterThe cosmic evolution of the barred galaxy population provides key information about the secular evolution of galaxies and the settling of rotationally dominated...
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NewsThe latest advances in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and their consequences for problems such as that of dark matter have been presentedHC2NP2019, the second conference on "Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches" organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Puerto de la...
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NewsThe Law of the Sky is 30 years oldThe IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative...
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PublishingThe Law that protects the sky of the Canary Islands celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversaryDespite being an almost insignificant point on the globe, La Palma can probably boast one of the best skies in the world for astronomical observation. Much of...
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DocumentThe laws of heaven. Astronomy and ancient civilizations"This book deals with the origins of the human obsession with time and covers the cultures of prehistory and classical antiquity, analysing how the observation...
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NewsThe Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution, on IAC Winter SchoolLa XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organizada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), tendrá...
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NewsThe longest stellar “dance” in a planetary nebulaThe two discovered stars revolve around each other in an orbit that lasts more than nine years. This research led by the IAC helps to understand how the...
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NewsThe LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energyThe first prototype of the Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the LST-1, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...