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  • Robert P. Kirshner, Executive Director of the Thirty Metre Telescope International Observatory (TIO), during his talk at the IAC.
    Robert P. Kirshner, Executive Director of the TMT International Observatory, visits the IAC and gives a colloquium on the Thirty Meter Telescope
  • Poster for the 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domainel workshops
    The IAC hosts a meeting exploring the future of time-domain and multimessenger astronomy after Gaia's legacy
  • Cartel de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e investigadoras de la Macaronesia
    El IAC participa en MacaroNight 2025 con actividades de divulgación científica para fomentar las vocaciones en astrofísica
  • Poster for the first edition of ‘Astronomy on Tap – Canary Islands’
    Astronomy on Tap arrives in Spain: first edition in the Canary Islands
  • An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26.
    Gran Telescopio Canarias observations confirm that Hayabusa2's asteroid target is smaller and faster than expected
  • Poster for the second session of the science outreach series “From the sky to the thesis”
    IAC doctoral students tackle galactic archaeology and research into ‘other worlds’ at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos
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    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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    1st UNDARK Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors with Radiowave Observations
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    One Postdoctoral Contract Dynamic Interactions and Exoplanets 2025 (PS-2025-072)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Exoplanets and Astrobiology”. The contract is funded by the project “Big problems for
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