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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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  • Presentation ceremony of the model of the European Solar Telescope carried out by Manuel Collados Vera, the coordinator of the project and Solar Physics researcher at the IAC, and José Gilberto Moreno, director of the Elder Museum of Science and Technolog
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    Presentation of the model of the European Solar Telescope at the Elder Museum of Las Palmas
    The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to construct the largest solar telescope in Europe with a diameter of 4m, at one of the two observatories in the Islands. Its main purpose will be to study phenomena such as sunspots and solar flares, with unprecedented accuracy, and a resolution of a few tens of kilometres at the surface of the Sun. The EST will allow us to better understand the emission of large quantities of electrically charged material, which can cause problems with our systems of communications. The model of this
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  • Imagen de la corona solar durante el eclipse total de sol, tomada desde Smiths Ferry. Crédito: Juan Carlos Casado/STARS4ALL.
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    Imágenes del eclipse solar del 21 de agosto de 2017
    El eclipse solar de ayer, que pudo observarse en su totalidad en Estados Unidos continental, fue retransmitido en directo a través de la web STARS4ALL en colaboración con el canal sky-live.tv desde el pueblo de Mackay, Idaho, gracias a la expedición liderada por Miquel Serra-Ricart, investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). El eclipse también pudo observarse parcialmente desde España, especialmente en las Islas Canarias, donde pudo verse una mayor fracción del disco solar ocultado por La Luna, entre un 42% (La Palma) y un 33% (Lanzarote).   El astrofotógrafo Daniel López
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  • Cartel anunciador de las funciones para público general. Diseño: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC).
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    The return of Henrietta Leavitt
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias recovers this American woman asronomer as a character in a multimedia play within an outrreach project whose aim is to stimulate scientific careers for women, and to point up their role in Physics and Astronomy.
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  • Image of the Sun taken form Palau, Indonesia on 9th March 2016. The corona is fairly symmetric, because the Sun was at a phase of high activity. The prominences in the chromosphere (red) can also be seen. Credit: J.C: Casado.
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    21st August: the great American eclipse
    On August 21st there will be one of the most anticipated total solar eclipses in recent years: the great American eclipse. The band of totality will cross the United States diagonally from west to east More that 100 million people should be able to watch the eclipse directly.
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  • The Perseids from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory with the MAGIC telescopes during the night of 11th and 12th of August 2016. Credit: Daniel López/IAC.
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    The Perseids 2017
    The European project STARS4ALL and sky-live.tv will show live the Perseid meteor shower from the Teide Observatory and the Montsec Astronomical Park. The STARS4ALL presentation will also include educational activities for students.
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