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  • Artistic illustration showing warm and hot ionised winds and the warm molecular gas rotating within a galaxy hosting an AGN. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC).
    Cosmic storms in obscured quasars revealed by GTC
  • De izquierda a derecha, José Alonso Burgal, gestor; Valentín Martínez Pillet, director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC); Alfonso Ynigo Rivera, ingeniero de sistemas; y Álex Oscoz, jefe del Departamento e investigador principal de IACTEC Espacio, durante su participación en el Space Symposium 2026.
    The IAC takes its space technology to Space Symposium 2026 and signs a collaboration agreement with LASP at the University of Colorado
  • Cartel de la próxima sesión de Del Cielo a la tesis / IAC
    El Sol se convierte en protagonista en la nueva edición de Del cielo a la tesis en el MCC
  • Two fans of blue and white dots extending up and down from center on a black background
    DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring
  • Artist’s impression of the TOI-201 exoplanetary system
    The IAC is involved in confirming the existence of an always-changing multi-planet system
  • Serge Haroche, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, and F. Duncan Haldane, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
    Two Nobel Laureates in Physics visit the IAC as part of the 18th ULL Physics Students’ Congress
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    Un contrato de Ingeniería Especialidad Software Celeste PS-2026-021
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para formalizar un contrato laboral de duración indefinida (Artículo 23bis de la Ley 14/2011, de 1 de junio, de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación), fuera de
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    IAC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP Exoplanets NIRPS 2026 PS-2026-040
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Very Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Planets”. The contract is funded by
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