News type: Press release

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    The VIII programme “Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” has begun
    In order to familiarize students in the 4th year of their high school career with the science carried out at the astrophysical installations on La Palma...
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    The visit of 2012 DA14, the closest ever asteroid to pass the EarthIAC telescopes will participate in observations that can be followed on-line
    2012 DA14 will pass some 27,700 kilometres from the surface of the Earth next Friday, 15 February. It will be the closest ever non-impacting encounter since the...
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    The Visitor Centre at the Roque de los Muchachos and the Starmus Festival: two gateways to the Universe and to the recovery of La Palma
    The Cabildo of La Palma, the Town Council of Garafía, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) yesterday inaugurated the Visitor Centre at the Roque...
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    The Walk of the Stars of Science is inaugurated in La Palma
    On Saturday, the Cabildo of La Palma, the City Council of Santa Cruz de la Palma, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) inaugurated the Walk of the...
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    The William Herschel Telescope in La Palma measures the size of a stellar-mass black hole jet
    Researchers of the IAC participate in a study appearing today in Nature Astronomy, in which they have measured the delay between the X-rays and the visible...
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    The winners of the competition “Canarians under the same sky” have been announced
    The 45 prizewinners, who come from the 7 islands, will visit the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias next week
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    The Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on Big Data Comes to a Close
    For five days more than 80 students immersed themselves in techniques for the handling and analysis of large databases using computer programmes.
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    The women astrophysicists and engineers at the IAC, in the foreground
    The second chapter of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky” will be published today. This continues the audiovisual series which was initiated...
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    The women astrophysicists and engineers at the IAC, in the foreground
    The second chapter of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky” will be published today. This continues the audiovisual series which was initiated...