With data from NASA’s TESS satellite, from the now retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) an international team of astronomers...
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NewsTESS, Spitzer and the GTC detect a planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
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NewsThe CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...
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NewsThe CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanets
CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination with Switzerland, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe countdown for the launch of ALISIO-1 has begun
The first Canary Earth Observation Satellite, belonging to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all the pre-launch technical...
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NewsThe Cumbre Vieja volcano taken with the DRAGO camera from orbit
The eruption on La Palma has provided a unique scenario for testing the DRAGO instrument, the infrared camera of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images from space
DRAGO, the infrared camera developed by the team at IACTEC-Space of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has seen its “first light”. The instrument, placed...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from space
The DRAGO ( Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) camera, developed entirely by the team of IACTEC-Microsatellites of the Instituto de...
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
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...