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  • Didier Queloz during his lecture in the IAC Aula
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    Nobel laureate Didier Queloz visits the IAC and outlines the ‘next frontier’ in the search for exoplanets
    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 Palma
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  • Personal del IAC que ha participado en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA)
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    El IAC, presente en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía con una amplia representación científica
    Cerca de un centenar de profesionales del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participaron en el principal encuentro de la astronomía española, en el que el director y la subdirectora del IAC protagonizaron una conferencia plenaria sobre el Telescopio de Treinta Metros (TMT) y su posible instalación en La Palma. El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ha tenido una amplia representación en la XVII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA), celebrada del 13 al 17 de julio en Tarragona , consolidando su papel como una de las instituciones de referencia de la
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  • Artistic impression of a runaway star propelled by a supernova explosion
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    IAC researchers participate in the largest Milky Way study of massive runaway stars
    Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos de la Universidad de Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña (IEEC), have carried out the largest observational study to date on massive runaway stars including rotation and binarity in the Milky Way. This work, recently published in Astronomy & Astrophysics , sheds light on how these stellar “fugitives” are launched into space and what their properties reveal about their intriguing origins. Runaway stars are stars that travel through
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