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  • Serge Haroche, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, and F. Duncan Haldane, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
    Two Nobel Laureates in Physics visit the IAC as part of the 18th ULL Physics Students’ Congress
  • Javalambre Auxiliary Survey Telescope, at the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory (Teruel, Spain)
    The ULL and the IAC have created one of the largest photometric catalogues of asteroids observed in Spain
  • Rafael Rebolo López.
    IAC researcher Rafael Rebolo elected Full Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain
  • Comparación entre las fases brillante y tenue de un agujero negro supermasivo
    The IAC and the Gran Telescopio Canarias participate in the discovery of a supermassive black hole that is fading at an extraordinarily rapid rate
  • 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
  • Grupo de investigación liderado por A. Di Cintio
    Dwarf galaxies: key to understanding the limits of the Universe model
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    IAC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Exoplanets NIRPS 2026 PS-2026-040
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Very Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Planets”. The contract is funded by
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    Un contrato de Ingeniería Especialidad Óptica Tannhauser PS-2025-100
    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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