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The return of Henrietta Leavitt
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias recovers this American woman asronomer as a character in a multimedia play within an outrreach project whose aim is to...
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NewsThe return of the GeminidsThe maximum frequency of this meteor shower is expected to be at 18.00 hours UT on 14th December
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NewsThe return of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky"To celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day, a new chapter of the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky” is being...
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NewsThe Roque de los Muchachos Observatory takes a further step into the future with the installation of the LST-4 cameraThe Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), located on La Palma, has reached another important milestone...
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NewsThe Rubin Observatory begins its exploration of the sky with the support of the IAC and GrantecanThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in Chile, today released its first images of the universe, known in astronomy as an instrument's “first light”. This...
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NewsThe Saturn Nebula reveals its complexityThe IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.
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NewsThe SDSS Project Opens a New Window to the Sky, on the InternetIts latest data release contains information about 470 million stars and galaxies
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NewsThe Secretary of State for Global Spain visits the Teide ObservatoryYesterday there was a visit to the installations of the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) by the Secretary of State for Global Spain, Manuel Muñiz, accompanied by...
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NewsThe secrets of the galaxies at one clickAn algorithm developed by the Spanish IAC researcher Sebastián Hidalgo will be used for the first time at the international distributed computing event “Gobal...