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    The effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasing
    The Director of the Starlight Foundation, and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Antonia M. Varela Pérez has contributed to a monographic...
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    The energetic youth of the dwarf galaxies that surround us
    An international team of astronomers, led by an ex‐student of the University of La Laguna (ULL), José R. Bermejo‐Climent, and a researcher at the Instituto de...
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    The Environmental footprint of Artificial Lighting
    The “Observatorio de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética” Foundation is organizing on October 4th, a seminar with this title at the headquarters...
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    The Equinox from the Basilica of Santa Lucía del Trampal
    Known as the only building from the Visigoth era in the southern half of the Spanish península which is still conserved, this church, from the Municipality of...
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    The Eta Aquarids 2018, the first meteor shower in May
    This phenomenon will be visible from the southern hemisphere, and just at our dawn will be visible from the northern hemisphere at mid-latitude. The STARS4ALL...
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    The Eta Aquariids 2021: echos of a meteor shower to study the Solar System
    On May 5th the Earth will pass through the cloud of dust and small fragments of rock which comet 1P/Halley left behind during one of its approaches to the Sun...
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    The European Research Council awards one of its prestigious "ERC Consolidator Grants" to IAC researcher Elena Khomenko
    The IAC researcher Elena Khomenko has managed to win an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, whose purpose is to support projects of world-wide...
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    The European Research Council has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Advanced Grants” to Javier Trujillo Bueno, CSIC Research Professor at the IAC
    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...
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    The European Solar Telescope project presents the design for its construction in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
    Scientists and engineers from the institutions making up the consortium for building the EST have met in La Palma to evaluate the end of the preparatory phase...