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News

  • DRAGO's first image of the Canary Islands
    The DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from space
  • Gran Canaria
    The June solstice will be broadcast from Gran Canaria
  • DQSkies 2021
    La Palma will host an international conference for the protection of the night sky
  • Artistic composition of a supermassive black hole regulating the evolution of its environment. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) and Dylan Nelson (Illustris-TNG).
    A study shows the unexpected effect of black holes beyond their own galaxies
  • Image of the placement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC).
    The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
  • An example of a nearby spiral galaxy, M81, where the bulge is easily identified as the central redder part, and the disc, dotted with zones where stars are currently forming and appear as blue regions forming spiral arms. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.
    The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified
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Events

  • 22 Jun 21
    Upcoming
    Talk
    Using machine learning in interstellar medium by Dr. Christophe Morisset (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
    12:30
  • 26 Jul 21
    30 Jul 21
    Upcoming
    Conference
    Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands 2021
    Online course
    09:00
    17:00
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