Scope: Observatorios de Canarias

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    The members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife.
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been an active participant in the developement of this spectrograph which will be used for the first time on...
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    The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, meets with the scientific community at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
    After the meeting, which was attended by representatives of various scientific institutions of reference, both regional and national, the minister and his team...
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    The natural brightness of the night sky
    A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
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    The new TST telescope at the Teide Observatory celebrates its First Light
    The robotic Transient Survey Telescope (TST) installed in the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully started its...
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    The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory
    The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
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    The only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzed
    The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply...
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    The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified
    An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC...
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    The OTPC: thirty years working to protect the sky
    The Technical Office for the Protection of Sky Quality (OTPC, its Spanish initials) has become a model copied by other Spanish autonomous regional communities...
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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...