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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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  • Participantes del Festival Hispanoamericano de Escritores durante su visita al Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos. Crédito: Juan Antonio González Hernández / IAC.
    Press release
    Literature and Astronomy: connected universes
    The participants in the second Hispano-American Festival of Authors which is taking place in Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma) paid a visit, yesterday, to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory during a day when Astronomy played the main role. During the afternoon there was a panel discussion in tribute to the Founding Director of the instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Francisco Sánchez, and at night the opportunity to observe the sky with amateur telescopes. "The Inspiring Force of the Universe. Tribute to Francisco Sánchez" was the topic of the panel discussion which brought together
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  • Poster of the second Hispano-american Festival of Authors
    Press release
    The IAC collaborates again with the Hispano-american Festival of Authors, in La Palma
    The second edition of this festival, which will be inaugurated tomorrow, Tuesday, until Saturday 14th September in the La Palma municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane and which will be attended by the Nobel Laureates in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, will again have a day dedicated to astronomy. Those present at the meeting will visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and after a panel discussion in honour of the founding Director of the IACV Francisco Sánchez, will make an observation with night-time amateur telescopes. For the second consecutive year
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  • Supercomputer at the Centro de Astrofísica de La Palma
    Press release
    Sharper view of the cosmos through reproducible science
    The team led by the researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Mohammad Akhlaghi has obtained a European grant to develop a project focused on the handling of large quantities of data, and the capacity to be able to reproduce any scientific result by another research group.
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  • Ana Rosa Mena, alcaldesa de Tegueste, durante su vista a la sala de metrología del IAC. Crédito: Alejandra Rueda (IAC).
    Press release
    Ana Rosa Mena vista la sede del IAC en La Laguna
    Ana Rosa Mena, alcaldesa de Tegueste, ha visitado esta mañana la sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, en La Laguna, acompañada de Campbell Warden, secretario ejecutivo del centro; Javier Licandro, coordinador del Área de Investigación; Antonio Díaz Chinea, jefe del departamento de Servicios Informáticos; y José Luis Rasilla, jefe del departamento de Óptica; algunos de ellos, vecinos del municipio.
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