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The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) welcomed the visit of Professor Didier Queloz, Nobel Laureate in Physics and co-discoverer of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Professor Queloz's stay at the IAC has focused on instrumental development and technological collaboration. As part of his agenda, he also gave a lecture entitled ‘Exoplanets: the next frontier’ in the IAC Lecture Hall. The researcher visited the IAC to supervise the installation of a new high-stability spectrograph on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La PalmaAdvertised on -
El Observatorio del Teide recibe este fin de semana a cerca de 1.000 visitantes en sus tradicionales Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas, organizadas por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) con motivo del solsticio de verano. Esta iniciativa, ya consolidada en el calendario divulgativo del IAC, ofrece a la ciudadanía la oportunidad de acercarse a la ciencia y a las infraestructuras científicas de Canarias de forma directa y cercana. La actividad está coordinada conjuntamente por el propio Observatorio y por la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3) del IAC, en el marco de lasAdvertised on -
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in Chile, today released its first images of the universe, known in astronomy as an instrument's “first light”. This event marks the beginning of a project that will revolutionise our understanding of the universe over the next decade. Jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, as part of a consortium of Spanish institutions, in its scientific exploitation and contributing observation time from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC orAdvertised on