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  • A panoramic view of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, with the new LST telescope array in the foreground
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    The IAC is ensuring connectivity between its observatories via a new submarine and terrestrial fibre-optic network
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully completed a technological milestone of great significance: the “Redundancy of the RedIRIS Tenerife–La Palma Maritime and Terrestrial Optical Network” project. This new and robust optical communications network guarantees the continuity of the data highways for the Canary Islands’ observatories — the Teide Observatory (OT) in Tenerife and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) in La Palma — ensuring their connectivity in the event of any technical or environmental contingency. This achievement is the result of a joint
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  • Personal del IAC que ha participado en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA)
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    El IAC, presente en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía con una amplia representación científica
    Cerca de un centenar de profesionales del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participaron en el principal encuentro de la astronomía española, en el que el director y la subdirectora del IAC protagonizaron una conferencia plenaria sobre el Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT) y su posible instalación en La Palma. El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha tenido una amplia representación en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA), celebrada del 13 al 17 de julio en Tarragona , consolidando su papel como una de las instituciones de referencia de la
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  • Tania Le Pivert Jolivet 
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    An asteroid has been named with after IAC researcher Tania Le Pivert Jolivet
    The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of asteroid (20747) Tanialepivert in honour of Tania Le Pivert Jolivet, a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), for her contributions to the study of primitive asteroids. The scientist thus joins the group of researchers affiliated with the IAC who have an asteroid named after them. Tania Le Pivert Jolivet, a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has been honoured with one of the most unique accolades a person dedicated to the study of the Solar System
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