Scope: Science and Technology

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    The IAC discovers a planetary nebula that destroyed its solar system
    An international team of researchers, including staff from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planetary nebula that destroyed its...
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    The IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids.
    The mission is part of the planetary defence strategy of the European Space Agency (ESA) The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting this week the...
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    The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
    The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
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    The IAC is participating in the first European planetary defence mission
    Researchers Julia de León and Javier Licandro of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are participating in the Hera mission of the European Space...
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    The IAC organises the CLASP2.1 space mission scientific meeting
    From 18 to 20 October, scientists from the USA, Japan and Europe meet at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to discuss the results of the third...
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    The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
    The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...
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    The IAC sends to space its second instrument for Earth observation
    The infrared camera DRAGO-2, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space and integrated into the satellite carrier ION-scv007 Glorious Gratia of the Italian company D...
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    The IAC, re-elected to the Science Lab of Microsoft's Azure computer network
    A new project from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been chosed to be carried out in the Science Lab in the seventh edition of the Global...
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    The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys
    The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. New facilities will soon provide imaging...