Scope: Observatorios de Canarias

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    The European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
    The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
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    The European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
    The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
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    The faint glow of cosmic hydrogen
    A study published recently in Nature magazine, in which Ana Monreal-Ibero, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant...
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    The first edition of the DRAGO educational project has been concluded
    The project "DRAGO: Canary Islands Educational Centres from Space" ended its 1st edition on Monday 27th June with a visit to the Teide Observatory for the...
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    The first images associated with a source of gravitational waves
    The IAC has participated in the detection of the counterpart, in the visible, the infrared and X-rays, of the source of gravitational waves GW170817 (neutron...
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    The first results of the BEARD project explain the survival of our Galaxy
    The international BEARD project, led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has used data from several...
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    The Galaxies "tune up their musical instruments"
    Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce a new method to make a precise analysis of the speed of the density waves which propagate in...
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    The Governing Council of the IAC gives firm support to the building of the TMT on La Palma
    This was stated by the acting Minister for Science, Innovation, and the Universities, Pedro Duque who chaired the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroids
    Last Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the...