News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • LST-1 telescope on La Palma. Credits:  Iván Jiménez Montalvo
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    Inauguration of the LST-1 telescope on La Palma
    The prototype of the four large size telescopes which will be a part of the CTA North network, referred to as LST-1, will be inaugurated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on October 10th . The ceremony will be attended by political authorities, and the highest level representatives of scientific insituttions in Japan, Germany, and Spain, the main countries involved in its construction.
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  • Imagen artística de las primeras supernovas de la Vía Láctea. La estrella Pristine 221.8781+9.7844 se formó a partir del material eyectado por estas primeras supernovas. Crédito: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC).
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    Galactic Archaeology
    An international team of researchers, including David S. Aguado, Jonay González and Carlos Allende Prieto of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a star with extremely low metallicyt, one of the oldest in the Milky Way, and for that reason an excellent messenger from the early universe.
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  • Cartel del seminario "La Huella Ambiental de la Iluminación Artificial. Protección y Valorización del Cielo Nocturno". Crédito: Fundación Observatorio de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética.
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    The Environmental footprint of Artificial Lighting
    The “Observatorio de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética” Foundation is organizing on October 4th, a seminar with this title at the headquarters of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Tenerife. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will participate in this set of lectures, with talks by Antonia María Varela Pérez and Federico de la Paz.
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  • Deep observations made with the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered vast cosmic reservoirs of atomic hydrogen surrounding distant galaxies. The exquisite sensitivity of MUSE allowed for direct observations of dim clouds of hydro
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    The faint glow of cosmic hydrogen
    A study published recently in Nature magazine, in which Ana Monreal-Ibero, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, reveals the presence of a hitherto undetected component of the universe: large masses of gas surrounding distant galaxies.
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  • "Gamma-rays and Comet Dust" (Rayos Gamma y polvo de cometa). Crédito: Daniel López. Esta imagen, en la que se ven los telescopios MAGIC, en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), y la lluvia de estrellas de las Perseidas, fue sele
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    The Law of the Sky is 30 years old
    The IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative, with which they will remind people of the importance and the scope of the “Law for the Protection of the Astronomical Quality of the Observatories of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias”.
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    A date with Science in Macaronesia
    Tomorrow, Friday 28th September is European Researchers’ Night. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in this via the Macaronight project, with around twenty talks and workshops will take place throughout the day in the Plaza del Adelantado in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and in the Espacio Cultural Aguere, in the same municipality.
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