The two discovered stars revolve around each other in an orbit that lasts more than nine years. This research led by the IAC helps to understand how the different types of planetary nebulae originate and how they affect the future of our sun and the Solar System.
This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.
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The writer is the sixth to participate in the cross-disciplinary project “En un lugar del Universo…”, which brings together Literature and Astronomy, and created to celebrate the IV centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes.
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This Agreement sets out the commitments that will be assumed by both parties in the event that it is built at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos.
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The IAC researcher and a Research Professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Javier Trujillo Bueno, has managed to win an ERC Advanced Grant, whose purpose is to support projects of world-wide scientific excellence, which will allow him to carry out pioneering research for 5 years on the polarization of solar radiation and the magnetic activity in the solar atmosphere. This is the first time that a Spanish scientist has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant in the field of “Science of the Universe”.
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This innovative educational project, whose name gives a nod to the Canarian municipality of Tïas, is a pilot experiment for the 2nd year of primary education in which scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna are collaborating.
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The discoverers, students at the El Calero Institute of Secondary Education (IES), who participe in the Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETER) coordinated by the IAC, are the youngest people in formal education who have made a discovery of this type.
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