Scientists and engineers from the institutions making up the consortium for building the EST have met in La Palma to evaluate the end of the preparatory phase...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope project presents the design for its construction in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever
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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EventThe exhibition “AstrónomAs” has arrrived in Tenerife
“AstronomAs” is an exhibition in two formats, physical and digital, whose aim is to show the role of women in astronomy, and to stimulate scientific and...
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NewsThe faint glow of cosmic hydrogen
A study published recently in Nature magazine, in which Ana Monreal-Ibero, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant...
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NewsThe first hybrid edition of the International Summer School for Teachers at the IAC has concluded
Last week saw the ending of the eighth edition of the school “Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands” coordinated by the IAC and NUCLIO, with the...
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NewsThe first images associated with a source of gravitational waves
The IAC has participated in the detection of the counterpart, in the visible, the infrared and X-rays, of the source of gravitational waves GW170817 (neutron...
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NewsThe first light pollution laboratory in the Azores
There are now 10 sensors monitoring the night-time darkness of the island of Corvo to determine the impact of artificial lighting on the sea birds. The...