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  • The lines of flow of the magnetic field detected with SOFIA are shown superposed on an image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Credits: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).
    Magnetic turbulence hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy
  • TMT
    The committee of experts of the US Academy of Science considers that the TMT is a priority, and maintains La Palma as a possible site
  • Diana Morant en el CALP
    Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation, visits the Centre for Astrophysics in La Palma
  • Image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370, one of the regions of the sky observed in the SHARDS Frontier Fields project. This is the deepest image ever taken to detect galaxies with emission lines, which are actively forming stars. The centre of the cluster is in the upper right of the image. In the same area, you can see gravitationally amplified galaxies, some of them showing highly deformed and lengthened morphologies, known as arcs. Credit: GRANTECAN
    Images from the Hubble Space Telescope and GRANTECAN help to show how the first galaxies were formed
  • Reunión Nadia Calviño y Rafael Rebolo
    Vice-president Calviño anounces her support for the project to improve the connectivity of La Palma by fibre optics
  • CCI participants 14 Oct 21
    CCI Declaration of Solidarity with La Palma
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