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  • Evolution of large-scale structure as calculated by supercomputers. The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. Credit: Modification of work by CXC/MPE/V. Springel
    The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
  • Una perseida cruza el cielo sobre el volcán Teide, la noche del 11 al 12 de agosto de 2020, bajo la atenta mirada del telescopio MASTER. En la imagen, tomada desde el Observatorio del Teide (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), también se puede ver el centro galáctico. Autor: D. Padrón. (Descarga en alta resolución: https://flic.kr/p/2jvWE3A)
    Eta-Acuáridas 2021: ecos de una lluvia de estrellas para estudiar el Sistema Solar
  • First images of DRAGO
    The DRAGO camera takes its first images from space
  • Artistic impression of the super-Earth in orbit round the red dwarf star GJ-740. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).
    A new super-Earth detected orbiting a red dwarf star
  • 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
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