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  • 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
  • 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
  • Cartel de la próxima sesión de Del Cielo a la tesis / IAC
    El Sol se convierte en protagonista en la nueva edición de Del cielo a la tesis en el MCC
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    IAC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP MATRYOSHKA-abundances 2026
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research –“Traces of galaxy formation: stellar populations, dynamics and morphology”
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    Un contrato Ingeniería Especialidad Civil EST PS-2026-015
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para formalizar un contrato laboral de duración indefinida (Artículo 23bis de la Ley 14/2011, de 1 de junio, de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación), fuera de
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