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  • Didier Queloz during his lecture in the IAC Aula
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    Nobel laureate Didier Queloz visits the IAC and outlines the ‘next frontier’ in the search for exoplanets
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) welcomed the visit of Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Professor Queloz's stay at the IAC has focused on instrumental development and technological collaboration. As part of his agenda, he also gave a lecture entitled ‘Exoplanets: the next frontier’ in the IAC Lecture Hall. The researcher visited the IAC to supervise the installation of a new high-stability spectrograph on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma
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  • Valentín Martínez Pillet
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    El director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, analizará la relación con nuestra estrella, el Sol, en la Real Sociedad Económica Amigos de El País
    En el marco del CXLVIII aniversario del nacimiento del ilustre científico canario Blas Cabrera y Felipe, la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Tenerife (RSEAPT) acogerá una conferencia a cargo de Valentín Martínez Pillet, director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y experto en Física Solar. La charla tendrá lugar el próximo martes 24 de febrero a las 18:00 horas en la sede de esta institución en La Laguna. Bajo el título “Viviendo con una estrella: el bueno, el feo y el malo”, Martínez Pillet explorará la relación entre la Tierra y el Sol. La charla, que forma parte
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  • SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings
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    The IAC hosts scientific meetings on Solar Orbiter's SO/PHI instrument
    From today until 5 December 2025, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting the SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings, an international gathering focused on the scientific and technical advances of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument aboard ESA's Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. The development of PHI was co-led by the Spanish Space Solar Physics Consortium (S3PC), which also currently coordinates its scientific operation and exploitation. The IAC is part of this network. PHI is a high-precision solar observation instrument equipped with two telescopes—one
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