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GalleryLa misión CHEOPS, en la que participa el IAC, observa sus primeros exoplanetas
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NewsMACARENA GARCÍA MARÍN: “Queremos que los científicos del IAC y la comunidad europea en general utilicen el James Webb”
Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la...
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NewsMARK MARLEY: “One great challenge when studying planetary atmospheres is clouds, which both brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets have”
Our planet becomes too small for some scientists, therefore they dedicate their lives to study other worlds much larger than Earth and those that are so massive...
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ParameterNight Sky Background
The sky brightness (SB) is the routine measurement of the night sky brightness in a moonless night. It is a sky quality parameter that allows for identifying...
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NewsObserved: an exoplanet where it rains iron
Nature magazine is publishing today a surprising study about the giant, ultra-hot planet WASP-76b in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsObserved: an occultation of a brown dwarf by another
An international team of astronomers in the project SPECULOOS, dedicated to the search for habitable planets, with scientists participating from the Instituto...
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PublishingPARALAJES Infrared
A major fraction of the energy emitted within the universe is in the infrared, but we cannot detect it except using instruments specially developed to do this...
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ProjectPETeR
The Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) is an online laboratory that aims to engage Spanish students in science and technology and to foster the...
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GalleryPlacement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC
Placement of the four legs of the test cryostat in the AIV room of the IAC. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC)