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  • Daniel Nóbrega Siverio, postdoctoral researcher at the IAC. Credit: Carmen del Puerto (IAC).
    Daniel Nóbrega Siverio, an IAC researcher, wins European Physical Society prize
  • One of the main pyramidal buildings of the central square of Caral, whose major axis is oriented parallel to the Supe river, and towards the major southern lunastice. Credit: A. César González-García (Incipit-CSIC).
    Astronomy and Landscape in the city of Caral, the oldest city in the Americas
  • Firma del acuerdo de gestión del Centro de Visitantes
    Agreement on the management of the Roque de los Muchachos Visitor Centre
  • OPTICON-RadioNet PILOT (ORP
    Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
  • The presence of ionized gas around galaxies with moves with them leaves a trace in the microwave background radiation (left panel) which can be detected knowing the pattern of velocities of the galaxies provided by the map of fluctuations in their redshift (right panel). Credit: Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo (IAC).
    New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
  • Artistic recreation of a hypothetical exoplanet with artificial lights on the night side. Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com
    Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
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    Six Summer Grants at IAC Astronomical Research

    The IAC (Tenerife, Spain) invites applications for SIX Summer Grants in Astrophysics. The research topics pursued at the IAC include most areas of Astrophysics: Solar Physics, Planetary Systems

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    ESCALA DE CIENTÍFICOS TITULARES DE LOS ORGANISMOS PÚBLICOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN. PS-2019-092

    Resolución de la Subsecretaría de Ciencia e Innovación, por la que se aprueban las listas definitivas de aspirantes admitidos y excluidos, por el sistema general de acceso libre, en la Escala de

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