The 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 European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
The World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...
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NewsThe HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way
An international study, using the high-speed HiPERCAM camera, installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), has determined for the first time the mass and...
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NewsThe IAC and the ULPGC renew their collaboration agreement on medical technology
The Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Rafael Rebolo; the Deputy Director, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón; the Rector of the University of Las...
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NewsThe IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids.
The mission is part of the planetary defence strategy of the European Space Agency (ESA) The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting this week the...
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NewsThe IAC initiates the Preliminary Market Inquiry for a new telecommunications project in the framework of the Recovery Plan
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has published a Preliminary Market Inquiry, asking for information in order to develop the proejct “Redundancy in...
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NewsThe IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
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NewsThe IAC moves towards the manufacture of optics for large telescopes with its new polishing machine at IACTEC
In the Optics Department of the IAC we are delighted to announce that we have reason to celebrate. We have received and initiated the first tests with the...