Scope: Science and Technology

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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...
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    The impact of strong recombination on temperature determination in planetary nebulae
    The long-standing difference in chemical abundances determined from optical recombination lines and collisionally excited lines raises questions about our...
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    The James Webb telescope produces an unparalleled view of the ghostly light in galaxy clusters
    A recent study, entirely done by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has produced the most complete analysis to date of the...
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    The JWST view of the barred galaxy population in the SMACS0723 galaxy cluster
    The cosmic evolution of the barred galaxy population provides key information about the secular evolution of galaxies and the settling of rotationally dominated...
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    The light from quasars, a key to the measurement of the expansion of the distant universe
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with the University of Geneva (Switzerland), the University of Osaka (Japan), and the University...
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    The light pollution in Macaronesia is on the increase
    The results obtained from the over two hundred photometers put in place by the Interreg EELabs project during the past four years have been used to evaluated...
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    The LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energy
    The first prototype of the Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the LST-1, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...