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- Edwin Hubble –

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News

  • Dr. Holly Gilbert at the inaugural Irene Gonzalez Hernandez Solar Physics Prize Ceremony in Anchorage, Alaska.
    Holly R. Gilbert awarded the inaugural Irene González Hernández Prize in Solar Physics
  • Staff from the Tenerife II - El Rosario penitentiary centre visit the Teide Observatory
    The IAC is taking astronomy to the prisoners in the Tenerife-II prison in El Rosario
  • Attendees at Our Science Day 2025
    The IAC celebrates the 16th edition of ‘Our Science Day’, an internal meeting to share scientific and technological advances
  • 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
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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 PARCSEC 2025 (PS-2025-045)
    The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract linked to the line of research “The central parsec of galaxies using high spatial resolution techniques” to work on the project “PARSEC
  • Permanent (open to public)
    Ingeniero/a Software PS-2025-026
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para el ingreso, como personal laboral fijo, de un puesto de trabajo con la categoría profesional de Ingeniero/a Software, fuera convenio en el Consorcio Público Instituto
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