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The Law of the Sky is 30 years old
The IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative...
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NewsThe longest stellar “dance” in a planetary nebulaThe two discovered stars revolve around each other in an orbit that lasts more than nine years. This research led by the IAC helps to understand how the...
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NewsThe MAGIC telescopes help to uncover the origin of a cosmic neutrinoA world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed...
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NewsThe material that obscures supermassive black holes, the connection with their host galaxiesInvited by Nature Astronomy, Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de...
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NewsThe members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife.The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been an active participant in the developement of this spectrograph which will be used for the first time on...
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NewsThe Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, meets with the scientific community at the Roque de los Muchachos ObservatoryAfter the meeting, which was attended by representatives of various scientific institutions of reference, both regional and national, the minister and his team...
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NewsThe natural brightness of the night skyA recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
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NewsThe new TST telescope at the Teide Observatory celebrates its First LightThe robotic Transient Survey Telescope (TST) installed in the Teide Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has successfully started its...
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NewsThe Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide ObservatoryThe Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...