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The countdown for the launch of ALISIO-1 has begun
The first Canary Earth Observation Satellite, belonging to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all the pre-launch technical...
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NewsThe Cumbre Vieja volcano taken with the DRAGO camera from orbitThe eruption on La Palma has provided a unique scenario for testing the DRAGO instrument, the infrared camera of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images from spaceDRAGO, the infrared camera developed by the team at IACTEC-Space of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has seen its “first light”. The instrument, placed...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from spaceThe DRAGO ( Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) camera, developed entirely by the team of IACTEC-Microsatellites of the Instituto de...
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universeThe Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will be installed on La PalmaThe 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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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroidsLast 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...
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NewsThe IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matterThe detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...