IN FAVOUR OF A DARK SKY

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  • Valentín Martínez Pillet, director del IAC, y Francisco García, rector de la ULL, en la sede del IAC
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    La ULL y el IAC refuerzan su colaboración institucional tras la visita del rector al centro de investigación
    Una delegación de la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), encabezada por el rector Francisco García, ha realizado una visita institucional al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), reforzando así el compromiso de colaboración y la estrecha relación que mantienen ambas instituciones, claves para el desarrollo científico y tecnológico de Canarias. El encuentro ha servido para revisar el estado del convenio que mantienen ambas instituciones y revisar algunas áreas de mejora para la renovación del mismo en materia de investigación, docencia y divulgación científica, además de aspectos
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  • Students visit the IAC stand at the Miniferia de la Ciencia y la Innovacion 2025 held on La Palma
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    The IAC turns students from La Palma into ‘astro-detectives’ during the Mini Science Fairs
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is once again participating in the Miniferias de la Ciencia y la Innovación en Canarias, reinforcing its commitment to popularising science and bringing astronomy closer to the Canarian public. Through its Scientific Communication and Culture Unit (UC3), the research centre is taking part in the activities organised in La Palma from 22 to 24 May. Become astro-detectives for a day Astrophysicists and popularisers Alfred Rosenberg and Alejandra Goded lead the activity ‘Astro-detectives: How do astrophysicists study the Universe?’, an interactive
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  • Artistic impression of the Proxima Centauri system, with the planets Proxima b and Proxima d, the latter confirmed by NIRPS
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    The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter
    The new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has achieved its first scientific results, with four articles published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and one more accepted for publication. The data confirm its ability to detect Earth-like planets in the infrared for the first time with a precision better than one metre per second. One of the papers, led by IAC researcher Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, confirms the presence of a
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