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News

  • Cartel de las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas en el Observatorio del Teide 2025
    The Teide Observatory opens its doors to the public on the weekend of June 21–22
  • Nine galaxies taken from over 700,000 spanning all of cosmic time, from upper left to lower right: the present day universe, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 billion years ago
    The IAC participates in the James Webb telescope's largest map of the universe
  • Imagen del sistema TOI-6894 / IAC
    A giant planet around a tiny star
  • Installation of the LST-4 camera at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.
    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory takes a further step into the future with the installation of the LST-4 camera
  • Attendees at the GATO collaboration meeting
    GATOS international collaboration meets at the IAC to unravel the mysteries of active galactic nuclei
  • Artistic recreation of the ExoLife Finder (ELF) telescope
    The IAC opens the call for its Winter School focused on key optical technologies for Astronomy
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Events

  • Upcoming
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    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    1st UNDARK Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors with Radiowave Observations
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    Ingeniero/a_Mecánico_NRT PS-2025-033
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  • Predocs
    PS-2025-021SIX Predoctoral Contracts Resident Astrophysics Programme
    SIX PhD FELLOWSHIPS AT IAC ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH (Ref. PS-2025-021) The IAC (Tenerife, Spain) invites applications for SIX PhD fellowships in Astrophysics. The research topics pursued at the IAC
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