Magnetograph for SUNRISE. IMaX (Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment) is one of the postfocal instruments for the SUNRISE experiment. After two succesful flights...
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ProjectIMaX-Sunrise
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NewsInauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope at the Teide Observatory
This new telescope for finding Earth-like planets which may transit some of the smaller cooler stars in the solar neighbourhood joints the SPECULOOS network of...
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NewsJEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life”
The Sun is not the live coal that Anaxagoras described. We can imagine hell in its interior, and we know that there are darker spots on its surface which, when...
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NewsLecture on the James Webb Space Telescope at the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos
Macarena García Marín, astrophysicist who works for ESA and NASA on the Hubble’s successor, will explain the difficulties of deploying it into space.
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NewsLIOM, the IAC's technological laboratory for finding life beyond the Solar System
From 14 to 16 February, the second scientific meeting of the Laboratory for Innovation in Opto-Mechanics (LIOM) will be held at the IACTEC building managed by...
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ProjectLIRIS - Long-slit Intermediate Resolution Infrared Spectrograph
Intermediate spectrograph for the 4.2 m William Herschel telescope located at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos
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NewsMAGIC telescopes test the quantum structure of space-time
The detection of a gamma ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory allows us to study whether the speed of light in a vacuum...
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GalleryMechanics Workshop
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EventMeeting on Future Instruments for the Telescopes at the Observatorios de Canarias
The Observatorios de Canarias are unique sites for observational Astronomy. Their location at high altitude and sky transparency make them ideal not only for...