Reunión del director del IAC con el presidente del Cabildo de La Palma
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07/12/2024
The "Nuestros Alumnos y el Roque de los Muchachos" programme receives unanimous high opinions from the schools of La Palma
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07/09/2024
IAC Researcher Ignacio Ferreras is newly elected councillor of the European Astronomical Society
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07/08/2024
The IAC hosts the meeting of the Research Advisory Commission
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07/08/2024
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory successfully hosts the first CTAO school
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07/05/2024
A Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray View of the Transient Sky
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07/02/2024
Valentin Martínez Pillet takes office as Director of the IAC
Press release
07/01/2024
Cientos de personas acuden a las jornadas de puertas abiertas del Observatorio del Teide
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06/22/2024
The IAC aims to illuminate the dark side of the universe with the UNDARK project
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06/19/2024
IAC Researcher Begoña García new coordinator of the Network of Astronomical Infrastructures
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06/17/2024
The IAC initiates its Office for the Transfer of Knowledge
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06/12/2024
The Teide Observatory will hold its Open Days on 22nd and 23rd June
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06/10/2024
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias celebra su XV edición del Día de Nuestra Ciencia
06/07/2024
El IAC y la Fundación Occident consolidan su programa de Investigadores Visitantes
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06/06/2024
El director de la Agencia Espacial Española, Juan Carlos Cortés, visita el IAC
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06/05/2024
The agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signed
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06/05/2024
Baryonic properties of nearby galaxies across the stellar-to-total dynamical mass relation
Research news
05/30/2024
ANTONIA VARELA: “La Medalla de Canarias me permite poner el acento en lo que importa: seguir hablando del cielo, de igualdad y de comunicar la ciencia”
Interview
05/29/2024
El IAC celebra el Día de Canarias
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05/28/2024
The IAC moves towards becoming a global benchmark in the manufacture of optical elements
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05/28/2024
Astronomers discover one of the closest potentially habitable exoplanets to Earth
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05/23/2024
First Euclid results dazzle scientific community
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05/23/2024
Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting ultra-cool star
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05/15/2024
Astronomers spot a giant planet that’s as light as cotton candy
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05/14/2024
Evidence for inflows and outflows in the nearby black hole transient Swift J1727.8-162
Research news
05/14/2024
The IAC brings astronomy closer to the young public at the Canary Islands Mini Fairs 2024
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05/08/2024
Researchers show that the shape of the Whirlpool galaxy has been molded by the repeated passage through its disc of a satellite galaxy
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05/02/2024
Antonia Varela, Canary Islands Gold Medal 2024
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04/29/2024
Eva Villaver, winner of the Spanish Geographical Society Research Award 2023
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04/26/2024
The ALISIO-1 satellite shows its efficiency in following the eruptions of the Mexican volcano Popocatépetl
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04/23/2024
XVII aniversario de la Declaración Starlight en Defensa del Cielo Nocturno
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04/17/2024
An honorary prize from the American Astronomical Society remembers solar physicist Irene González Hernández
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04/12/2024
Hydrogenated amorphous carbon grains as a carrier of unidentified IR bands in planetary nebulae
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04/09/2024
The Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IAC
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04/02/2024
The mystery of the fullerenes in space explained
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03/27/2024
Astronomers find evidence that blue supergiant stars can be formed by the merger of two stars
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03/22/2024
Astronomers confirm a new “Trojan” asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars
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03/21/2024
Teacher training at IACTEC: proyect Planet Change
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03/13/2024
La Caixa Foundation awards 5 research grants for doctoral and post-doctoral projects at the IAC
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03/13/2024
IAC astrophysicist Arianna Di Cintio receives the Junior Research Award at ULL's Institutional Day
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03/12/2024
El IAC da pasos firmes en su compromiso continuo con la Igualdad
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03/07/2024
Expo at IACTEC: Clemencia Hardisson
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03/04/2024
The Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the Forum of Women Scientists and Technologists of the Canary Islands
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03/01/2024
The IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids.
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02/29/2024
IAC Deputy Director Casiana Muñoz Tuñón receives the Bandera de Andalucía Award
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02/29/2024
CARMENES exoplanet hunter scientific meeting
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02/23/2024
Astronomers observe the effect of dark matter on the evolution of the galaxies
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02/21/2024
First observations of the Canary Islands satellite ALISIO-1 from space
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02/16/2024
LIOM, the IAC's technological laboratory for finding life beyond the Solar System
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02/15/2024
El IAC y el Ayuntamiento de La Laguna fomentan la calidad del cielo
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02/10/2024
Sixth edition of "Talk to Them: Women in Astronomy" and other initiatives to celebrate the Day of Women and Girls in Science
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02/09/2024
The IAC hosts the annual meeting of the DALI experiment to search for dark matter
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02/08/2024
The light pollution in Macaronesia is on the increase
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02/07/2024
MIT Astronomy Field Camp returns to the Teide Observatory
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01/26/2024
A novel code for exploring the magnetic field of the solar corona
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01/25/2024
Scientific results with the QUIJOTE-MFI wide survey: The anomalous microwave emission in our Galaxy and M31
Research news
01/24/2024
El Consejo Rector del IAC nombra a Valentín Martínez Pillet futuro director del centro
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01/17/2024
Astronomers discover that the first galaxies had very different shapes to today's galaxies
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01/17/2024
Astronomers make a significant advance in our knowledge of the asteroids nearest to the Earth, the Arjunas
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01/16/2024
Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed
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01/15/2024
Nube, the almost invisible galaxy which challenges the dark matter model
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01/09/2024
Calendario astronómico de 2024
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01/01/2024
LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the most distant quasar at very high energies
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12/27/2023
The "Visiting Researchers" programme of the Occident Foundation strengthens the commitment to attract prestigious scientific personnel to the IAC
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12/22/2023
New Director of the Museum of Science and Cosmos
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12/21/2023
An asteroid is named after the Jesuit Juan Casanovas, founder of the Solar Physics group at the IAC
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12/15/2023
Gemínidas en defensa del cielo nocturno
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12/12/2023
El IAC envía al Espacio el primer satélite canario
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12/01/2023
A huge stream of stars is discovered in the Coma cluster
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11/30/2023
The synchronized dance of a system of six planets is revealed
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11/29/2023
Closing of the IAC Winter School 2023
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11/23/2023
Official inauguration of the educational project CosmoLab 2023-2027
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11/22/2023
Astronomers find the key for detecting the largest structures in the early universe
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11/21/2023
IACTEC and the prompt detection of a diabetic foot
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11/14/2023
On the magnetic nature of quiet-Sun chromospheric grains
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11/13/2023
Carmen del Puerto receives the outreach award at the Villa de La Orotava Science Fair
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11/10/2023
US ambassador visits the IAC headquarters
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11/09/2023
The JWST view of the barred galaxy population in the SMACS0723 galaxy cluster
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11/09/2023
Public talk: The Milky Way and its impacts with other galaxies
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11/09/2023
Discovered: the most distant barred spiral galaxy (until now)
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11/08/2023
Euclid release its first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
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11/07/2023
A conference celebrates 60 years in astrophysics by IAC researcher John Beckman
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11/06/2023
The Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution, on IAC Winter School
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11/06/2023
The President of the Canary Islands Government visits the IACTEC
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11/03/2023
Starmus premieres documentary and announces a special edition of the festival on La Palma
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11/03/2023
Meeting in La Palma of the International Scientific Committee of the Canary Islands Observatories
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11/02/2023
The countdown for the launch of ALISIO-1 has begun
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11/02/2023
Un mapa para recuperar la noche
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10/31/2023
William Herschel Telescope inaugurates its new WEAVE spectrograph
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10/31/2023
A shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron stars
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10/31/2023
Open clusters lose stars as they age, study finds
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10/30/2023
The first meeting of the major astronomical observatories in Spain is held in La Palma
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10/25/2023
The IAC organises the third technical conference of the Research Results Transfer Offices in the Canaries
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10/23/2023
The Space Working Group of the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Council gets to know the Canary Islands Observatories
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10/23/2023
Dating stars with magnetic activity
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10/19/2023
The IAC organises the CLASP2.1 space mission scientific meeting
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10/17/2023
How far does light pollution reach?
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10/16/2023
The Infrared: beyond the rainbow
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10/11/2023
The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
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10/10/2023
Arranca en La Palma el congreso de la Unión Astronómica Internacional sobre las constelaciones de satélites y su impacto en el cielo nocturno
10/02/2023
Santa Cruz de La Palma will once again host the mayor international meeting for the protection of the skies
09/27/2023
The IAC hosts the presentation of the "Tenerife Declaration" to improve the distribution of research infrastructures in Europe
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09/26/2023
Tenerife welcomes Research Infrastructures Week
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09/25/2023
The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys
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09/21/2023
The James Webb observes the first galaxies in the universe and discovers and “impostor”
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09/19/2023
2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds
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09/15/2023
ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
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09/12/2023
The densest “Neptune” ever observed
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09/01/2023
Confronting fuzzy dark matter with the rotation curves of nearby dwarf irregular galaxies
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09/01/2023
The relic galaxy NGC 1277 lacks dark matter
Research news
08/28/2023
Astronomy day with Saharawi children and their host families on Tenerife
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08/25/2023
The president of the Cabildo de La Palma visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
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08/25/2023
Teresa Ribera visits the Teide Observatory to assess the effects of the fire
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08/25/2023
IAC communiqué on the Izaña Fire
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08/21/2023
The residents of Garafía visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on a day of sharing
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08/18/2023
Impressive images of the Ring Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
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08/04/2023
La lluvia más esperada del verano
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08/04/2023
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, nuevo miembro de AESEMI
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08/02/2023
The President of the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Councillor for Innovation, Research and Development visit the IAC
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08/02/2023
First test of the Euclid telescope in space.
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07/31/2023
The ninth edition of the AEACI promotes astronomy education once more
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07/28/2023
Grantecan solves an old puzzle about the brightness of galaxy discs
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07/26/2023
A workshop in La Palma consolidates scientific collaboration in astronomy between Spain and China
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07/25/2023
The CSIC and the IAC take part in the creation of the Canary European Solar Telescope Foundation
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07/25/2023
Rafael Rebolo and Romano Corradi receive the 'Order of the Star of Italy'
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07/21/2023
The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter
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07/19/2023
Sky protection is one of the central issues on the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
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07/07/2023
The Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
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06/30/2023
The group of presidents of the TSJs visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
06/29/2023
Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions
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06/28/2023
Blue Supergiants observed in detail
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06/26/2023
The definitive book about the cultural role of astronomy in ancient Egypt
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06/23/2023
Massive pulsating star provides clues to calibrate stellar evolution models
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06/22/2023
The effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasing
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06/21/2023
Funding for Grantecan's activities in the coming years is consolidated
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06/20/2023
An amino acid essential for life is found in interstellar space
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06/20/2023
IAC Statement: The Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM) announces a temporary cut of the road inside the Observatory
06/16/2023
Astronomers study the magnetic chaos of galaxies in the nearby Universe
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06/14/2023
Nearly Two Million Objects to Study Dark Energy with DESI
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06/13/2023
The IX International Summer School for teachers at the IAC will be focused on the study of "Other Worlds"
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06/12/2023
New Open Days at the Teide Observatory
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06/02/2023
IACNet DNS Firewall Protection Service
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06/02/2023
Evidence of water found in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot gas giant
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05/31/2023
The IAC and the Canary company Light Bridges will collaborate to install a robotic telescope in the Teide Observatory
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05/26/2023
A new explanation for the high temperatures of the solar corona
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05/25/2023
Astronomers find Earth-sized world potentially covered in volcanoes
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05/17/2023
An old problem about the measurement of the chemical composition of the universe has been resolved
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05/17/2023
New contracts for young people through the INVESTIGO Programme
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05/16/2023
The mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved
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05/09/2023
Astronomers solve the mystery of how quasars are ignited
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04/26/2023
Astronomers discover tiny galaxy with extraordinary star formation in distant Universe
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04/18/2023
Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question
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04/13/2023
El IAC se suma a la celebración del Día Mundial de la Tecnología Cuántica
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04/11/2023
DRAGO-2 makes its first observations from space
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04/05/2023
Molecules precursors to life discovered in the Perseus Cloud
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04/03/2023
High number of faint, ultra-diffuse galaxies in our Local Group discovered
03/30/2023
Astronomers witness the birth of a cluster of galaxies from the early Universe
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03/29/2023
The Japanese ambassador visits the ORM
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03/27/2023
Relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy
Research news
03/21/2023
Discovery of relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy
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03/21/2023
The IAC moves forward in its commitment to equality
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03/08/2023
The outburst of a neutron star reveals the nature of phenomena only observed in black holes
03/02/2023
The IAC joins the Open Administration Week with visits to the La Palma Supercomputing Node
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02/24/2023
CARMENES project boosts the number of known planets in the solar neighbourhood
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02/22/2023
First MIT Astronomy Field Camp at the Teide Observatory
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02/17/2023
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias formalizes the contract to strengthen submarine digital connectivity
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02/17/2023
The Gran Telescopio Canarias plays a key role in the discovery of the ring of the dwarf planet Quaoar
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02/16/2023
Con todas las letras de la ciencia
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02/14/2023
Education and social awareness activities to promote the participation of women and girls in Science
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02/14/2023
Initiation of LIOM, the IAC Laboratory for Innovation in Optomechanics
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02/13/2023
The scientific team of the ESPRESSO instrument meets to review its first 5 years
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02/09/2023
Itxiar Anguita Fontecha, a fighter for Equality, Accessibility, and Inclusion
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02/01/2023
The IAC hosted the meetings of the PERTE Chip Commissioner, with firms and academic departments in the semiconductor field
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01/30/2023
A near-pristine star found to be binary
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01/13/2023
QUIJOTE maps the structure of our Galaxy’s magnetic field
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01/12/2023
Astronomical calendar 2023
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01/11/2023
Astronomers find the origin of one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way
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01/10/2023
The IAC sends to space its second instrument for Earth observation
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01/04/2023
¿Qué le pides al nuevo año? Cuadrántidas 2023
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01/02/2023
Matter that shows when numbers do not work out and other unknowns
News report
12/20/2022
The WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM
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12/19/2022
Hospital Universitario de Canarias and IAC make progress in the early detection of colon cancer with artificial intelligence
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12/19/2022
ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
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12/15/2022
James Webb Telescope reveals the possible origin of the mysterious shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula
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12/13/2022
Last wishes of the year: Geminids 2022
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12/09/2022
The Jesús Serra Foundation and the IAC reaffirm their commitment to collaborate in attracting prestigious international visiting scientists
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12/02/2022
The James Webb telescope produces an unparalleled view of the ghostly light in galaxy clusters
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12/02/2022
The IAC initiates the Preliminary Market Inquiry for a new telecommunications project in the framework of the Recovery Plan
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12/01/2022
The challenges of Astrophysics and Cosmology
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11/30/2022
Can we listen to dark matter?
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11/24/2022
The IAC is leading a COST action of the European Union to study carbon nanostructures in space
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11/24/2022
James Webb telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
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11/22/2022
XXXIII Canary Islands Winter School - Overlaps at the Frontiers of Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
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11/22/2022
The International Scientific Committee of the Canary Observatories met in the University of La Laguna
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11/18/2022
IACTEC develops a model to simulate pathologies of a diabetic foot
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11/14/2022
The European Space Agency and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias celebrate their silver anniversary in Tenerife
Press release
11/11/2022
The Spanish Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Esther Monterrubio, and the President of the COPUOS Subcommittee on Scientific and Technical Affairs, Juan Francisco Facetti, visit the IAC and the Canary Islands Observatories
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10/28/2022
The European Research Council has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Advanced Grants” to IAC’s SUBSTELLAR project
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10/27/2022
Unravelling coronal bright points
Research news
10/14/2022
Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
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10/13/2022