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  • Solar panels installed at the Teide Observatory
    The Teide Observatory reduces its electricity consumption thanks to solar energy
  • 4th ESO students from the Santo Domingo de Guzmán school in La Palma during their visit to the GTC as part of the “Nuestr@s Alumn@s y el ORM” program.
    The outreach programme “Our students and the ORM” celebrates its 15th birthday, praised by students and teachers.
  • The reviewers with the EST team at the IAC headquarters in La Laguna.
    Preliminary design review of the European Solar Telescope control software successfully completed
  • Participantes en la jornada de actividades organizadas por el IAC, ACAPS y el MCC en el marco del programa “Vacaciones en Paz”
    El IAC y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos abren sus puertas a las niñas y niños saharauis y sus familias de acogida en Tenerife
  • Artistic impression of the Proxima Centauri system, with the planets Proxima b and Proxima d, the latter confirmed by NIRPS
    The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter
  • El director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, durante el acto de conmemoración del 40 Aniversario / IAC
    El IAC dedica su 40 aniversario a todas las personas que han trabajado para ‘soñar estrellas’
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    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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