The result of an agreement signed between the “La Caixa” foundation, the CajaCanaris Foundation and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is that the IAC will train four young people in their workshops and observatories.
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Casiana, an astrophysicist expert in galaxies, and Principal Investigator of the international collaboration ESTALLIDOS, will also lead the Sky Quality Group of the Canary Island Observatories. She succeeds the astrophysicist Carlos Martínez Roger who recently retired.
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The best time to observe the first meteor shower of 2019 will be the night of January 3rd to 4th. The astronomical event will be broadcast live from the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife) and Higuera la Real (Badajoz), with the collaboration of the European STARS4ALL project and the initiative promoted by the Junta de Extremadura, "Extremadura, Buenas Noches".
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias(GTC), on the point of completing 10 years of scientific operation, is still the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world. This status will be maintained until at least 2025 when the new generation of very large telescopes will start operating. The astrophyisicist Romano Corradi, its director since 2016 and an expert in planetary nebulae, gave a review of the present and future of this “singular infrastructure” during the VI Conference on Science with the GTC, which was held in Valencia.
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The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will help it to correct the atmospheric turbulence above the future 39m telescope.
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A study led jointly by a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detects a faint stellar glow which is distributed in virtually the same way as the dark matter in deep observations of six clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope.
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