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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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  • Composition of the meteor shower Perseidas 2014 on the Teide (Tenerife). Credit: Observation M. Serra-Ricart, processed J.C. Casado-starryearth, IAC.
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    Perseids 2018, a spectacle in the sky
    On the night of 12th to 13 of August, a moonless night, we will be able to see the maximum, of this meteor shower. The event will be broadcast live from the Teide Observatory (Izaña, Tenerife) and from El Anillo (Cáceres) via the sky-live.tv channel, on August 12th with the collaboration of the European project STARS4ALL and by “Extremadura Buenas Noches” an initiative of the Junta of Extremadura. In addition the citizen science project “Contadores de estrellas” (“Counters of Stars”) fimded by FECYT offers an observing proposal for the whole family.
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  • Kepler's Supernova remnant. Crédito: X-ray: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M.Burkey et al; Optical: DSS. Release date: March 18, 2013.
    Press release
    After the Kepler supernova explosion, no survivors were left behind
    A study involving a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has been led by a researcher at the Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF-CSIC) and the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos (UB-IEEC), argues that the explosion that Johannes Kepler observed in 1604 was caused by a merger of two stellar residues.
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  • Mirjana Pović y Marja Seidel, astrofísicas propuestas para los 2018 Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science. Crédito: Miguel Briganti, SMM (IAC).
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    Two young researchers with doctorates from the IAC and ULL are proposed for the Nature Research Awards
    Among the young women scientists proposed this year to receive the award, which recognizes the careers of researchers with leadership, and who promote the interest of other young people for material related to the sciences are two people with doctorates obtained at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of La Laguna (ULL).
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  • Imagen de la Luna en el máximo de la totalidad desde HESS (Namibia). Se observa una Luna Roja pero con irregularidades de brillo en su superficie. Crédito: J.C. Casado.
    Press release
    Primeras imágenes y secuencias de la Luna Roja desde Namibia y Tenerife
    Más de dos millones de personas presenciaron el eclipse en directo desde Namibia a través del canal sky-live.tv con la colaboración del proyecto europeo STARS4ALL y del Observatorio de altas energías HESS. Y se calcula que alrededor de 1.200 se acercaron a la Fiesta del Sistema Solar en el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife. Ambas iniciativas contaron con la participación del personal del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC).
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