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The Moon says goodbye to January in a big way
Next Wednesday, January 31st, the Moon will feature with a total eclipse of a “supermoon” which will also be the second full Moon of the month. This will be a...
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NewsThe Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the Forum of Women Scientists and Technologists of the Canary IslandsThe meeting, which will take place on Friday 1 March at 18:00, is being held on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and...
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NewsThe mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...
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NewsThe natural brightness of the night skyA recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
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NewsThe nature of an extreme B supergiant in Cygnus2MASS J20395358+4222505 is an obscured early B supergiant near the massive OB star association Cyg OB2. Despite its bright infrared magnitude (Ks= 5.82) it has...
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NewsThe new IATec building is inaugurated in La LagunaA building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
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NewsThe ninth edition of the AEACI promotes astronomy education once moreUnder the theme "Other Worlds", this edition highlighted the latest discoveries and advances in research on extrasolar planets, the Solar System and...
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NewsThe Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide ObservatoryThe Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
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NewsThe number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is openedThe Gran Telescopio Canarias or GRANTECAN has surpassed, for the first time, the 10,000 face-to-face visits. The forecast is that by the end of the year there...