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El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha sido distinguido por la Delegación del Gobierno en Canarias con uno de los reconocimientos entregados durante el acto de conmemoración del 47 aniversario de la Constitución española de 1978, celebrado este 6 de diciembre y presidido por el delegado del Gobierno en Canarias, Anselmo Pestana. La Delegación del Gobierno ha reconocido la labor del IAC, que celebra su 40 aniversario, en virtud del artículo 44.2 de la Constitución Española, por su fundamental contribución a la promoción de la ciencia y la investigación científica y técnica enAdvertised on -
An international scientific team, involving the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has identified the cause of an unusually long dimming of a distant star . The phenomenon is explained by the passage of a substellar object with a giant ring system, similar to a ‘cosmic saucer’, in front of the host star. The star, named ASASSN-24fw, is located in the Monoceros constellation at about 3,000 light-years away from Earth. The star faded steadily for more than nine months between late 2024 and mid-2025 to about 97% dark before returning to its normalAdvertised on -
The international CTAO LST Collaboration , in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) plays a prominent role, released remarkable findings from observations of GRB 221009A—the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. The results were published by the renowned journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJ Letters) . The publication presents in-depth observations conducted in 2022 with the Large-Sized Telescope (LST ) prototype, the LST-1, during its commissioning phase at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the CTAO-North site in La Palma, Spain. TheAdvertised on