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News

  • El LST-2 completa la instalación de su estructura de soporte
    The support structure of the LST-2 at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory is completed
  • IAC scientists publish in Nature Astronomy a practical guide to improve proposals and applications
    IAC scientists publish in Nature Astronomy a practical guide to improve proposals and applications
  • El IAC participa en TLP Tenerife
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa en TLP Tenerife 2025 para acercar la ciencia a los jóvenes y fomentar vocaciones
  • Artistic impression of a binary system similar to KIC 10001167
    The IAC validates a method for measuring the masses of stars using their seismic waves
  • Combined image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS formed by 239 exposures of 50 seconds taken with the Two-metre Twin Telescope (TTT3) at the Teide Observatory.
    3I/ATLAS: The IAC is monitoring closely the third interstellar object detected in the Solar System
  • An artist's impression of PLATO, a European mission that will search for Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting neighbouring stars from 2026 onwards.
    PLATO reaches a milestone in its construction, and is getting ready to look for planets similar to Earth
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Events

  • 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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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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Employment

  • Indefinite contract
    One Postdoctoral Contract Science with NEOMIR 2025 (PS-2025-050)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Small bodies of the Solar System”. The contract is funded by the project “S2-NM-01 Science
  • Permanent (open to public)
    Jefe/a Taller Mecánica - PS-2025-016
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para el ingreso, como personal laboral fijo, de un puesto de trabajo con la categoría profesional de Jefe/a de Taller, acogido al Convenio y que tendrá, entre otras, las
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