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Dolmens and the Equinox
Next Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere...
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NewsDos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luzNuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...
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NewsDownflowing umbral flashes as evidence of standing waves in sunspot umbraeUmbral flashes are sudden brightenings commonly visible in the core of some chromospheric lines. Theoretical and numerical modeling suggests that they are...
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NewsDRAGO passes its tests for launch into spaceThe flight model for the SWIR DRAGO camera, developed by the IACTEC-Space team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all...
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NewsDust in the central parsecs of unobscured AGN provides more challenges to the torusThe black holes at the centres of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them...
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NewsEducation and social awareness activities to promote the participation of women and girls in ScienceSome 40 women astronomers, engineers and technologists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from IACTEC and from other collaborating...
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NewsEELabs: sustainable use of artificial lightingInitiation of the European project EELabs. The recent visit of the Mayor of Gúímar to the Teide Observatory sees the start of the Energy Efficiency Laboratories...
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NewsEfficient Bayesian inference of the evolving cosmic web from galaxy surveysWe present COSMIC BIRTH (COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models): an algorithm to reconstruct the...
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NewsEl astrofísico Ethan Siegel resalta la calidad del cielo de CanariasEl astrofísico y reconocido divulgador estadounidense Ethan Siegel ha visitado el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) para conocer de primera mano su...