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  • La consejera insular de Turismo Raquel Rebollo Morera; el director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet y la consejera insular de Desarrollo Económico, Miriam Perestelo Rodríguez. /Inés Bonet (IAC)
    El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias agradece el compromiso de la ciudadanía palmera con la protección de sus cielos
  • The director of IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet and the team of engineers of the European Solar Telescope, alongside the international panel of reviewers with the telescope model, during the evaluation in Tenerife. / Inés Bonet (IAC)
    The European Solar Telescope project under review by an international team of experts
  • ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space /ESA - S. Corvaja
    The IAC is participating in the first European planetary defence mission
  • Artist’s impression of the accoustic oscillations of normal (“baryonic”) matter, taken from one of thousands of simulations used in the study/ Francisco-Shu Kitaura & Francesco Sinigaglia
    The light from quasars, a key to the measurement of the expansion of the distant universe
  • El director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, en la inauguración de la XXV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics.
    Valentín Martínez Pillet y Antonia Varela inauguran la XXV edición de la Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
  • The Mercator telescope and the new domes of the Marvel instrument / IAC
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the KU Leuven reneu their framework of cooperation
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