The participants in the first Hispanoamerican Festival of Authors yesterday visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, invited by the Instituto de...
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NewsStars from the world of literature “touch the sky” at the La Palma Observatory
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NewsStars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe
The journal Nature Communications today is publishing the discovery of a new type of stars, very rich in phosphorus, which could help to explain the origin of...
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NewsStars shrouded in iron dust
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high...
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DocumentStellar Astrophysics for the Local Group
Cambridge University Press has also published the 1996 volume dedicated to the Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, on "Stellar astrophysics for the...
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NewsStudents from La Palma measure the darkness at night over the island
Their results were presented this morning at the “Preserving the Skies” conference held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Starlight Declaration
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NewsStudents of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017
A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
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NewsSuccessful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...
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NewsSucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”
A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...
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NewsSummer School on "Eclipsing binaries and asteroseismology" held in La Palma
Fifteen students from nine different countries attended a meeting from September 26th to 30th to learn about the measurement of the fundamental properties of...