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Agreement with D-Orbit to integrate DRAGO in the ION satellite
The IACTEC-Space programme of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has signed an agreement with the Italian space tranporting company D-Orbit to...
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NewsALLAN SANDAGE: “La materia oscura podría estar constituida por rocas”Trabajar con Edwin Hubble y medir la constante de Hubble le han elevado al olimpo de la ciencia astronómica. Norteamericano de Iowa, donde nació en 1926...
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NewsALMA: in search of our cosmic originsEvanthia Hatziminaoglou, support astronomer at the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) will give an outreach lecture on Friday June 1st at 19:00...
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NewsAluminium oxide found in an Ultra Hot JupiterAn international team, led by the astrophysicist Carolina von Essen, has used the OSIRIS spectrograph on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to study the...
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NewsAn amateur astronomer discovers a dwarf galaxyThe observations carried out with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) have confirmed the discovery of the isolated...
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NewsAn amino acid essential for life is found in interstellar spaceThe IAC researcher Susana Iglesias-Groth has discovered the existence of tryptophan, an amino acid essential for the formation of proteins and the develoment of...
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NewsAn ancient brown dwarf in our cosmic neighbourhoodA study, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has confirmed the presence of an unusual metal-poor brown dwarf less than 30 light-years away...
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NewsAn application of Astronomy to save endangered speciesTracking rhinos, making a census of gray wolves or finding poachers, are just some of the innovative capabilities of the world’s first project that combines...
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NewsAn asteroid has been named with after IAC researcher Tania Le Pivert JolivetThe International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of asteroid (20747) Tanialepivert in honour of Tania Le Pivert Jolivet, a postdoctoral...