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  • 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
  • Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2.
    Rotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way
  • WEAVE's fibre positioner after being unpacked at the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). Credit: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING), La Palma.
    WEAVE is ready to start operating in La Palma
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    07 Oct 21
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    Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society
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