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  • David Calle en el Observatorio del Teide
    Press release
    El youtuber David Calle visita el IAC

    David Calle, youtuber, fundador del portal educativo https://www.unicoos.com, visita el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna, y el Observatorio del Teide, en el marco de una colaboración de la Unidad de Comunicación y Cultura Científica (UC3), la Dirección del IAC y Unicoos. Durante su estancia, este ingeniero de telecomunicaciones y profesor de academia presencial y online desde Secundaria a Universidad, g rabará en el Observatorio d el Teide. Participan en la grabación: Irene Puerto, astrofísica y monologuista de Big Van y, por parte del IAC, Olga Zamora, astrónoma de

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  • The European Researchers' Night
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    The IAC and the Observatorios de Canarias will participate in the " European Researchers' Night"

    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Observatorios de Canarias will participate during "European Researchers' Night" with live broadcasts via its YOUTUBE channel- IAC Videos- from a number of telescopes at the Teide and Roque de los Muchachos Observatories. Astronomers from diverse disciplines,k (solar physics, high energy astrophysics, galaxies, cosmology..) will show us their work from the most advanced installations: the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) the Quijote Exeriment, the solar towers, the Pyramid, the ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS), the high energy telescopes

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  • Poster of the second Hispano-american Festival of Authors
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    The IAC collaborates again with the Hispano-american Festival of Authors, in La Palma

    The second edition of this festival, which will be inaugurated tomorrow, Tuesday, until Saturday 14th September in the La Palma municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane and which will be attended by the Nobel Laureates in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, will again have a day dedicated to astronomy. Those present at the meeting will visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and after a panel discussion in honour of the founding Director of the IACV Francisco Sánchez, will make an observation with night-time amateur telescopes. For the second consecutive year

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  • Supercomputer at the Centro de Astrofísica de La Palma
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    Sharper view of the cosmos through reproducible science

    The team led by the researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Mohammad Akhlaghi has obtained a European grant to develop a project focused on the handling of large quantities of data, and the capacity to be able to reproduce any scientific result by another research group.

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  • Perseid. Teide Observatory.
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    The Perseids2019, a spectacle in the early hours

    On the nights of August 12th and 13th we will be able to get maximum enjoyment of the Perseids. They will be broadcast live from the Observatory of Oukaimeden (Morrocco) on the sky-live.tv channel on the night of august 12th with the collaboration of the European project STAR4ALL, and from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). In addition the citizen science project “Star counters” financed by the Spanish FECYT, will offer an observation proposal for the whole family.

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  • Exposición “100 Lunas Cuadradas” en el Centro Nacional de Arte de Tokio
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    El Centro Nacional de Arte de Tokio expone “100 Lunas cuadradas”

    La muestra de nueve imágenes astronómicas obtenidas desde el Observatorio del Teide continúa su recorrido por Japón durante la ceremonia de fundación del Consorcio de Ciudades de la Ciencia nipón. Esta exposición educativa del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias también puede visitarse hasta el próximo 31 de julio en la sucursal 1 de Correos de Tenerife.

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