Astrophysical Technology for early detection of diabetic foot neuropathy |
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The IAC renews its WiFi network platform |
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The La Palma World Biosphere Reserve and the IAC work out a protocol to monitor and prevent invading species |
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Aena and the IAC collaborate in the renewal of the lighting of the Tenerife South Airport |
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The Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million euros |
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Solved: the mystery of how dark matter in galaxies is distributed |
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Discovery of a young forming planet around the nearby star AU Mic |
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies |
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The IAC renews the data network of the Canary Observatories |
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IACTEC develops a system which can analyze subcutaneous tissues for early detection of illnesses |
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Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu |
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The role of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the evolution of our Galaxy |
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Cosmic amorphous dust in the interstellar medium as a possible explanation for the Anomalous Microwave Emission |
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DRAGO passes its tests for launch into space |
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The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter is solved |
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Nailing Bennu's colors to the mast: new findings on the origin of this primitive body |
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World experts prepare the first report for the United Nations on regulation of light pollution and mitigating the impact of satellite constellations |
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New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity |
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A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf |
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In defence of Optical Astronomy |
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Dark and quiet skies for science and society |
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The CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets |
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Large scale dynamical differences between active and non-active galaxies in the local Universe |
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Astronomers find the first galaxy whose ultraviolet luminosity is comparable to that of a quasar |
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Is the Large Magellanic Cloud spiral arm a stable structure? |
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The impact of strong recombination on temperature determination in planetary nebulae |
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The first “ultrahot Neptune” is discovered |
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Exogeneous material found on the surface of asteroids Ryugu and Bennu |
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The autumnal equinox from the Dolmen of Valdecaballeros |
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Astronomy and Literature, together again in La Palma |
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TESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time |
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Natural darkness to preserve night-time ecosystems |
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25th anniversary of the discovery of the first brown dwarf |
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The IAC is collaborating again with the Spanish-American Writers’ Festival in La Palma |
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The presence of resonating cavities above sunspots has been confirmed |
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Discovery of continuous infrared winds during the outburst of a black hole |
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Allande Stars: beyond the stars, closer to our culture |
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Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole |
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Obra de referencia en Exoplanetología |
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Communiqué from the IAC about the recent fire in Garafía |
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The phosphorus that came from the stars |
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The Perseids 2020 |
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Stars rich in phosphorus: seeds of life in the universe |
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Communiqué from the IAC. Telescopes of the ASTRI project |
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Differences between the discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time |
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The IAC's most international astronomical adventure comes to an end |
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Pedro Duque attends the “official opening” of IACTEC and presides over the Governing Council of the IAC |
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The IAC has its qualification as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence renewed |
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Tidally trapped pulsations in a close binary star system |
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The comet NEOWISE from the Canaries |
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MAGIC telescopes test the quantum structure of space-time |
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The structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed |
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Activities for Asteroid Day |
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A system of superearths has been detected around the brightest red dwarf in the sky |
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A planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU Mic |
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A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs |
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The LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energy |
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The Head of the Department of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Government visits the IAC |
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Research in the Canary Island observatories, main theme of the recent meeting of their International Scientific Committee |
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The IAC is deeply saddened by the death of the young astrophysicist Rebeca Galera |
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The Agreement for the use of the IACTEC building has been signed |
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The International Summer Course for teachers celebrates its sixth edition in 'online' format |
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Hot stars are plagued by giant magnetic spots |
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The online training by PETeR reaches 180 teachers from all over Spain |
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ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision |
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The evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever |
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The changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814 |
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Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet |
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TESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy |
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El proyecto educativo "CosmoLAB" cumple dos años |
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The astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has died |
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GUIDO MÜNCH: «En Marte pudo haber vida, de la que tal vez se podrían encontrar restos fósiles si buscásemos en el lugar apropiado” |
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IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma |
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A chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology |
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The IAC is designing and making material for protection against COVID-19 |
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Lyrids 2020: wishes through the window |
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The CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanets |
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ESTE VIRUS LO PARAMOS UNIDOS |
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Investigate the Universe with robotic telescopes: new training with the PETeR project |
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An ionised bubble powered by a proto-cluster at z = 6.5 |
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La Palma telescopes participate in the discovery of a young blazar produced by the merger of two galaxies |
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How to see April's Supermoon from home |
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JOSÉ LULL: "The Egyptian astronomers used to observe from the terraces of the temples and palaces" |
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Young stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the Universe |
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Public version of PORTA, a novel 3D radiative transfer code |
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The IAC joins the cultural and educational initiatives to help confront Covid-19 with the campaign "#IACUniversoEnCasa" |
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Arte y Ciencia I: La fórmula del lápiz |
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Scientists discover the first pulsating white dwarf in an eclipsing binary system |
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The IAC presents the video of the POLMAG project |
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A huge superbubble observed in an interacting galaxy |
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Observed: an exoplanet where it rains iron |
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Observed: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another |
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The return of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky" |
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Astronomers discover a pulsating teardrop-shaped star |
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the woman who discovered pulsars |
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The March “Supermoon” will bid goodbye to winter next to the shadow of Teide |
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EELabs: sustainable use of artificial lighting |
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Astronomers discover a white dwarf formed by the merger of two stars |
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The IAC will be participating in the Spanish Small Satellites International Forum 2020 |
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IAC researcher José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, next Secretary General of the International Astronomical Union |
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The Japanese ambassador to Spain visits the IAC and the Canary Observatories |
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A step forward to solve the mystery of ultra-diffuse galaxies |
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Are ultra-diffuse galaxies Milky Way-sized? |
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Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths” |
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New edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky" |
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The Town Council of Tequeste visits the IAC |
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February 11th: an unceasing commitment to equality |
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The extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf star |
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ROGER DAVIES: “It would be wonderful to have the TMT here in La Palma, at the Roque, and of course there would be the potential for European participation” |
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The first one day meeting on the protection of the sky and employment opportunities has been held |
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Red nuggets at the center of nearby galaxies |
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Presentation of the book “Observing the Sun from Tenerife. An adventure above the sea of clouds” |
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Confirming new physics in space |
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La Fundación Starlight gana el Reto FiturNext 2020 |
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Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of a primitive star |
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JEFFREY R. KUHN: “In our lifetime we are going to wake up some morning to the news that we have discovered life” |
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TESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy |
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The Report on the Socio-economic Impact of the TMT on La Palma has been presented |
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The Quadrantid meteor shower: start the year with a good wish |
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RAFFAELLA MORGANTI: "The first image of a black hole was an important milestone for astrophysics" |
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Astronomical Calendar 2020 |
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Cheops, an orbiting telescope to characterize exoplanets |
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Young stars found in the oldest and most massive galaxies in the universe |
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GEMÍNIDAS 2019: The big winter meteor shower! |
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Sources of light which appear and disappear observed in the sky |
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The VI Conference “Science with the Gran Telescopio Canarias” opens |
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VI Conference on Science with the GTC |
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Asteroid Bennu revealed as an active object by the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission |
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Lecture "The first circumnavegation of the world. Discovering new skies, islands, and cultures" |
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Discovery of the highest-energy photons from a gamma-ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes |
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Scientists find the explanation at the high temperatures of the solar corona |
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Winter School was finished on fluids dynamics in Astrophysics |
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Discovery of a massive black hole companion to a B-type star from radial velocity measurements |
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Three supermassive black holes detected in interacting galaxies |
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ENTREVISTA CON SASCHA HUSA. “Esperamos entender el origen y evolución del Universo a través de las ondas gravitacionales” |
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Astronomers discover a giant black hole that challenges current models of stellar evolution |
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The XV Science and Innovation Weeks in the Canaries have ended |
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Charla pública: «Ondas gravitacionales. Los sonidos del Universo» |
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MAGIC telescopes detect the first gamma-rays burst at very high energies |
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The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened |
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The Computational Dynamics of Fluids, the main theme of the IAC Winter School |
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A promising future for the Canary Island Observatories |
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The IACTECagreement of collaboration between the IAC and EMXYS for the development of technological, scientific and human resources in the island has been signed. |
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Scientists from the US, Japan and Europe meet to discuss the results of the CLASP-2 experiment |
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Experts debate in La Palma the future of the European research infrastructures |
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Direct broadcast of the transit of Mercury |
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Mercury passes across the face of the Sun for the fourth time in the present century |
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The Consul of Japan in the Canary Islands visits the IAC |
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Amanar: an astronomical seed planted in Tindouf |
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The IAC is participating in the Weeks of Science and Innovation in the Canaries |
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The early sequence of events that shaped the Milky Way |
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DESI opens its 5.000 eyes to capture the colors of the Cosmos |
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The Consul General of the Embassy of the United States in Madrid visits the IAC |
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Free access to the largest catalogue of objects observed by Grantecan |
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The project “Amanar, under the same sky”, Astronomy for Peace and Development |
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Violent flares in the centre of a black hole system |
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Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope |
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A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models |
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The latest advances in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and their consequences for problems such as that of dark matter have been presented |
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EMIR and MEGARA, two instruments giving excellent results on GRANTECAN |
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The Universities of Turku (Finland) and Aarhus (Denmark) are the new owners of the NOT |
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Fullerenes discovered in a star formation region in Perseus |
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Hard-state Accretion Disk Winds from Black Holes |
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Astronomers find an unusual planetary system which challenges models of planet formation |
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El youtuber David Calle visita el IAC |
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The IAC and the Observatorios de Canarias will participate in the " European Researchers' Night" |
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A look at the subatomic world from the IAC |
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Fullerenes in the IC 348 star cluster of the Perseus molecular cloud |
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Exploring a new definition of the green valley and its implications |
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet |
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Do we need a galactic disc to form stars? |
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Dual dust chemistry around evolved stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud |
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Literature and Astronomy: connected universes |
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The IAC collaborates again with the Hispano-american Festival of Authors, in La Palma |
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Sharper view of the cosmos through reproducible science |
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Close collaboration between the City Council of La Laguna and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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The President of the Canary Islands Parliament visits the IAC to learn more about the TMT project |
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Mayoress of Tegueste visits the IAC |
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Ana Rosa Mena vista la sede del IAC en La Laguna |
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A “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars |
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Proclamation of the unanimous support from the Canarian public bodies for the construction of the TMT on La Palma |
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A week of astronomical activities in the municipality of Garafía |
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The Perseids2019, a spectacle in the early hours |
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Astronomers find a nearby system of exoplanets with a potentially inhabitable world |
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The Governing Council of the IAC gives firm support to the building of the TMT on La Palma |
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El Centro Nacional de Arte de Tokio expone “100 Lunas cuadradas” |
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10 years of the GTC: Amazing science with an astonishing telescope |
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The early days of the Milky Way revealed |
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Memories of the universe, half a century of astrophysical research |
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The conference “Giving an impulse to Astrophysics in Spain: 50 years of doctoral theses” is inaugurated |
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Teachers from five countries embark on a new astronomical adventure in the Canaries |
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50 years “Dreaming about the stars” |
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Ending of the course for teachers “Get close to the Cosmos” |
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IAU Symposium: Professional and Amateur astronomers, united in the same cause |
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10 years bringing Astrophysics to the school community of La Palma |
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A study of the whole Sun |
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A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star |
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A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda galaxy |
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Amanar: under the same sky |
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The hidden Universe: inauguration of the IAU Symposium |
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