The 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...
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NewsThe Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IAC
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NewsThe changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814
The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...
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NewsThe CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...
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NewsThe Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical...
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NewsThe CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field from the photosphere up to the base of the corona
Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the...
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NewsThe CLASP2.1 mission team receives a NASA award
The international team of the “Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter” (CLASP) space missions, which includes three scientists of the Instituto de Astrofísica...
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NewsThe committee of experts of the US Academy of Science considers that the TMT is a priority, and maintains La Palma as a possible site
The National Academy of Science of the United States presented, yesterday afternoon, its report Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the...
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NewsThe Computational Dynamics of Fluids, the main theme of the IAC Winter School
Tuesday 19th November the XXXI edition of the Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will start. This year it will be devoted to the...
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NewsThe conference “Giving an impulse to Astrophysics in Spain: 50 years of doctoral theses” is inaugurated
This meeting of researchers linked to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and its Observatories opened yesterday with a lectura by Francisco Sanchez...