Thanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids
Last Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the...
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NewsThe 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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NewsThe IAC moves towards the manufacture of optics for large telescopes with its new polishing machine at IACTEC
In the Optics Department of the IAC we are delighted to announce that we have reason to celebrate. We have received and initiated the first tests with the...
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NewsThe 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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NewsThe IAC's most international astronomical adventure comes to an end
Last week the sixth edition of the summer course "Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands", coordinated by the IAC and NUCLIO, was held in virtual...
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NewsThe 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...
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NewsThe Report on the Socio-economic Impact of the TMT on La Palma has been presented
This morning, in the Cultural Space of the CajaCanarias Foundation in Santa Cruz de La Palma there was a public presentation of the Report on the Socio-economic...
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