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Testing fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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NewsTesting the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhoodBlazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
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DocumentTHE "WINTER" COMES OF AGEThe Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics comes of age.
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NewsThe agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signedThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has diedProfessor Guido Münch was the first astronomer to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1989 for which he was...
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NewsThe atmosphere of a new ultra hot Jupiter is analysedThe combination of observations made with the CARMENES spectrograph on the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Almería), and the HARPS-N spectrograph on...
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NewsThe Canary Islands Observatories visit the European ParliamentThe exhibition "100 Square Moons" is inaugurated in Brussels, together with a model of the European Solar Telescope. For a week the European Parliament in...
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ProjectThe Central PARSEC of Galaxies using High Spatial Resolution TechniquesPARSEC is a multi-wavelength investigation of the central PARSEC of the nearest galaxies. We work on black-hole accretion and its most energetic manifestations...
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NewsThe Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IACThe Deputy Director of the IAC, Casiana Muñoz Tuñón praises the bravery and persistence shown by Francisco Sánchez which enabled the IAC to be recognized as one...