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    Communiqué from the IAC: Sentence about the concession of the land for the construction of the TMT to the IAC
  • Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO
    IRSOL and IAC scientists solve a complex paradox in solar physics
  • AEACI 2021 tutors and collaborators
    Now available in open access some of the lectures of the latest educational adventure of the IAC
  • Artist’s impression of the L 98-59 planetary system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
    A study offers new prospects for finding life outside the Earth
  • Perseids on MAGIC telescope
    The Perseids 2021: the most awaited meteor shower of the summer
  • The image shows the process of nuclear feeding of a black hole in the galaxy NGC 1566, and how the dust filaments, which surround the active nucleus, are trapped and rotate in a spiral around the black hole until it swallows them. Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO).
    Astronomers discover how to feed a black hole
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    Resolución de la Dirección del Consorcio Público Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias por la que se convoca proceso selectivo para la contratación de un/a Ingeniero/a, fuera de convenio, en la

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