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Galileo Galilei

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News

  • Sequence of a total solar eclipse
    The IAC is launching the NATE experiment in Palencia to coincide with the total solar eclipse on 12 Augustwith the support of the Government of the Canary Islands
  • Imagen de portada del libro ‘Eclipses. El Sol y sus eclipses en la ciencia, la historia y las artes’ /
    Eva Villaver participa en la presentación del libro ‘Eclipses. El Sol y sus eclipses en la ciencia, la historia y las artes’
  • Participants of the ExGal-Twin Radio Astronomy in Groningen (13-14 April 2026).
    ExGal-Twin (IAC) Radio Astronomy School and 2nd Project Meeting held in The Netherlands
  • An artistic impression of a nanojet ejection triggered by the interaction of two magnetic flux ropes within a coronal loop in the Sun’s atmosphere.
    A new model provides an explanation for the tiny ‘nanojets’ observed on the Sun
  • Artistic illustration showing warm and hot ionised winds and the warm molecular gas rotating within a galaxy hosting an AGN. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC).
    Cosmic storms in obscured quasars revealed by GTC
  • De izquierda a derecha, José Alonso Burgal, gestor; Valentín Martínez Pillet, director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC); Alfonso Ynigo Rivera, ingeniero de sistemas; y Álex Oscoz, jefe del Departamento e investigador principal de IACTEC Espacio, durante su participación en el Space Symposium 2026.
    The IAC takes its space technology to Space Symposium 2026 and signs a collaboration agreement with LASP at the University of Colorado
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  • Indefinite contract
    Un contrato Administrativo/a EST - PS-2026-014
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para la contratación de un/a Administrativo/a, acogido al Convenio Colectivo del IAC, en la modalidad de contrato laboral de actividades científico-técnicas de duración
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    IAC Postdoctoral Fellowship Local Group 2026. PS-2026-049
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “ Galaxy Evolution in the Local Group ”. The contract is funded by the
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