The Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IAC |
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MIT Astronomy Field Camp returns to the Teide Observatory |
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An asteroid is named after the Jesuit Juan Casanovas, founder of the Solar Physics group at the IAC |
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Official inauguration of the educational project CosmoLab 2023-2027 |
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Un mapa para recuperar la noche |
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The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
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The president of the Cabildo de La Palma visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
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Teresa Ribera visits the Teide Observatory to assess the effects of the fire |
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The residents of Garafía visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on a day of sharing |
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Massive pulsating star provides clues to calibrate stellar evolution models |
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The Japanese ambassador visits the ORM |
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Astronomical calendar 2023 |
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The WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM |
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The Rector of the University of La Laguna (ULL) visits the Gran Telescopio de Canarias to give an impulse to the Sustainability Plan for the telescope |
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ASTRI telescopes at the Teide Observatory: an example of environmental integration |
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The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, meets with the scientific community at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
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The OTPC: thirty years working to protect the sky |
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The first edition of the DRAGO educational project has been concluded |
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A delegation from the Commission for Regional Development of the European Parliament visited the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory |
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Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation, visits the Centre for Astrophysics in La Palma |
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Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed |
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Rocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition |
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WEAVE is ready to start operating in La Palma |
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The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified |
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Astronomers discover a massive star cluster, of intermediate age, in the constellation Scutum |
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The European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma |
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The natural brightness of the night sky |
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Quadrantids 2021: our best wishes for the start of a new year |
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The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn: astronomical event of the year |
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An eclipse, a superconjunction, and the last meteor shower of the year: Geminids 2020 |
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The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory serves as an inspiration to the world tourism summit which is being held on La Palma |
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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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The IAC renews the data network of the Canary Observatories |
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Astronomy and Literature, together again in La Palma |
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Natural darkness to preserve night-time ecosystems |
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The IAC is collaborating again with the Spanish-American Writers’ Festival in La Palma |
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Communiqué from the IAC about the recent fire in Garafía |
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Communiqué from the IAC. Telescopes of the ASTRI project |
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Activities for Asteroid Day |
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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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EELabs: sustainable use of artificial lighting |
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The Japanese ambassador to Spain visits the IAC and the Canary Observatories |
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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 VI Conference “Science with the Gran Telescopio Canarias” opens |
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Direct broadcast of the transit of Mercury |
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Free access to the largest catalogue of objects observed by Grantecan |
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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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The Gran Telescopio Canarias obtains the visible spectrum of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), the first confirmed interstellar comet |
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A “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars |
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A week of astronomical activities in the municipality of Garafía |
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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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The president of the Italian National Astrophysics Institute visits the IAC |
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The project “CosmoLAB: the solar system as a laboratory in the classroom” is one year old |
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The IAC and ESA sign an agreement to widen the programmes of connection and transmission of optical data at the Teide Observatory |
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The CTA and the IAC celebrate the International Day of Light with an outreach day in Garafía |
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids |
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A system of globular clusters in the disc of a galaxy detected for the first time |
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“GALACTICA”: the biggest panorama of the Milky Way is complete |
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The HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way |
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Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star |
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Journey to the Big Bang through the lithium of a Milky Way star |
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GRANTECAN opens its doors to its observing nights |
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Contracts for those newly qualified in “Formación Profesional” |
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Casiana Muñoz -Tuñón, new Deputy Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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Quadrantids, start the year with good wishes! |
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ROMANO CORRADI: “One of the best telescopes in the world had to be in one of the best sites in the world for observing the sky” |
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HARMONI pases its design revisión and will be the spectrograph on the future ELT |
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Astronomers find a way to “see” the distribution of dark matter in clusters of galaxies |
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The Saturn Nebula reveals its complexity |
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MuSCAT2 to find Earth-like habitable planets in the TESS era |
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Calendario astronómico 2019 |
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BigSkyEarth Conference: AstroGeoInformatics |
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The present and future of research with the GTC |
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The present and future of research with the GTC |
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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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Helium signal reveals the comet-like tail of exoplanet WASP-69b for the first time |
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Rafael Rebolo, galardonado con uno de los Premios Nacionales de Investigación Científica |
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Geminids 2018, the last big meteor shower of the year |
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80ª reunión del Comité Científico Internacional en La Laguna |
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A Sun more complex than expected |
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The CTA-North Observatory: a network of opportunities for Spanish industry |
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An amateur astronomer discovers a dwarf galaxy |
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Our solar neighbourhood is full of planets |
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Cosmic fireworks from a new gamma-ray binary |
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La Palma hosts the meeting of the Board of the CTA Observatory |
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Galaxies like Russian dolls |
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El rentable legado de una ley única en el mundo |
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The Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on Big Data Comes to a Close |
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Aluminium oxide found in an Ultra Hot Jupiter |
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El valor del cielo de La Palma |
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More than 80 participants from the whole world will attend the IAC Winter School on Big Data |
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30 years protecting the Canary sky |
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Astrophysics in the Canaries generates 3.5 euros for every euro invested |
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Astrophysics in the Canaries generates 3.5 euros for every euro invested |
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Two stars so close that they are almost touching found inside a planetary nebula |
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Four years with SONG |
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Close of the International Conference on the cosmic background radiation in Tenerife |
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Astronomers propose a new method for detecting black holes |
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Astronomy returns to the Canary classrooms |
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Frontiers of Astroparticle Physics |
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International Conference on the cosmic microwave background radiation in Tenerife |
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Sextans: the smallest cannibal galaxy discovered until now |
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LST1: a new telescope that shines in the summit of La Palma |
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Inauguration of the LST-1 telescope on La Palma |
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Galactic Archaeology |
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The Environmental footprint of Artificial Lighting |
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The faint glow of cosmic hydrogen |
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The Law of the Sky is 30 years old |
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A biography of possibly the first Canary astronomer will be presented, based on the discovery of a set of mysterious old exercise books in the library of the IAC |
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Stars from the world of literature “touch the sky” at the La Palma Observatory |
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The only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzed |
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The IAC collaborates in the first Hispanoamerican Festival of Authors in La Palma |
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OTELO reveals a population of “ghost galaxies” in the Universe |
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Night CAT call for proposals 2019A |
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Perseids 2018, a spectacle in the sky |
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After the Kepler supernova explosion, no survivors were left behind |
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Un verano más, el IAC abre sus puertas a la formación de profesorado |
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A young IAC scientist wins a distinguished prize from the European Physical Society |
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Comienza el curso “Acércate al Cosmos” |
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Anuncio del puesto de Subdirector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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One of the densest clusters of galaxies in the universe is revealed |
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The MAGIC telescopes help to uncover the origin of a cosmic neutrino |
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PEDRO DUQUE “We will continue to support the Sky of the Canaries as a valuable factor for society” |
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Researchers find organic material in the Antennae Galaxies |
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Tellurium is detected in one of its places of origin |
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MAGIC celebrates its 15th anniversary |
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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: “We must bring literature closer to the stars!” |
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Representatives of the London School of Economics visit the IAC |
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IV International Summer Course "Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands" |
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Today, in the Sicilian town of Giardini Naxos (Italy) the first meeting on Science with the EST is starting |
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Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets |
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Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanet |
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ALMA: in search of our cosmic origins |
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CosmoLAB: el Sistema Solar como laboratorio en el aula |
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20 years keeping an eye on R Aquarii |
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10ª edición del DNC: un ejemplo de comunicación interna |
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SPICA, a candidate for the next class M scientific mission of ESA |
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Call for IAC-Nordic NOT proposals for semester 2018B |
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Presentación en La Palma de la exposición “FEDER, mirando el cielo” |
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Researchers at the IAC participate in the discovery of clusters of galaxies in the early universe |
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The itinerant exhibition “FEDER looks at the sky” comes to La Palma |
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A stellar first showing of the new film by Mateo Gil “The Laws of Thermodynamics” |
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Lirids 2018: a date with the stars this weekend |
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A stargazers’ festival |
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Meeting of the Advisory Research Commission of the IAC |
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“The Universe is the best particle accelerator” |
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The Galaxies "tune up their musical instruments" |
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GALÁCTICA: The largest photo of the Milky Way available on the web |
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The Hubble Space Telescope discovers the most distant star ever observed |
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Representatives of the TMT visit the IAC and its observatories |
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The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory |
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The workshop on the James Webb Space Telescope finishes |
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IAC researchers will participate in the XIth Physics Students Conference at the University of La Laguna. |
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IN MEMORIAM: STEPHEN HAWKING |
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Special issue “Women in Astronomy” |
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Lecture on the James Webb Space Telescope at the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos |
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Researchers have observed the heating produced in the Sun by magnetic waves |
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GTC studies the origin of the neutrino detected in the “Ice Cube” in the South Pole |
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IAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that shouldn’t really exist |
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CanariCam studies the polarization produced by the gas and dust around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way |
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Astronomy at the Canary classrooms |
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The members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife. |
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Fuerteventura se vuelca con “Descubre el Universo” |
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La ACIISI te invita a descubrir el Universo con el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
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CALIFA renews the classification of galaxies |
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Galaxies that feed on other galaxies |
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Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula |
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News about Tabby’s star, the most mysterious star of 2017 |
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The Quadrantids and the first wishes of the year |
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NEFER: a new instrument for the GTC |
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Students of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017 |
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Calendario astronómico 2018 |
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IAC astronomers find one of the first stars formed in the Milky Way |
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El instrumento CARMENES descubre su primer exoplaneta |
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The European Research Council awards one of its prestigious "ERC Consolidator Grants" to IAC researcher Elena Khomenko |
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El magnetismo de los agujeros negros es sorprendentemente débil |
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Gemínidas 2017, la lluvia de Navidad |
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First light of ESPRESSO: a new generation of hunters for Earth-like planets |
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Noviembre, mes de la divulgación científica |
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Cuatro senadores visitan el IAC |
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Emission from the centre of a galaxy has a serpentine shape |
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Las Estrellas Errantes de las Nubes de Magallanes |
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Clausurada la XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics |
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Un planeta muy “heavy”, increíblemente metálico y denso |
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El origen de la barra de la Gran Nube de Magallanes |
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La vida de una estrella en un arco iris |
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El Comité Científico Internacional de los Observatorios de Canarias se reúne en La Palma |
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Hallan el segundo sistema planetario más cercano a la Tierra |
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Dos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luz |
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Inaugurada una nueva Escuela de Invierno del IAC |
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Aplicaciones del transporte radiativo a atmósferas estelares y planetarias en la Escuela de Invierno del IAC |
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El Teatro Circo de Marte despide a la élite de la Astrofísica en rayos gamma |
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"From La Palma to the sky" |
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Discovering the Extreme Universe in Santa Cruz de La Palma |
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Public talk in Garafía about Extreme Universe |
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