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  • News
    The 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...
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    The European Solar Telescope will see its first light in 2027
    The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome has hosted today the first European presentation of the European Solar Telescope (EST) in the frame of the...
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    The evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than ever
    Thanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
  • Event
    The exhibition “AstrónomAs” has arrrived in Tenerife
    “AstronomAs” is an exhibition in two formats, physical and digital, whose aim is to show the role of women in astronomy, and to stimulate scientific and...
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    The faint glow of cosmic hydrogen
    A study published recently in Nature magazine, in which Ana Monreal-Ibero, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant...
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    The first hybrid edition of the International Summer School for Teachers at the IAC has concluded
    Last week saw the ending of the eighth edition of the school “Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands” coordinated by the IAC and NUCLIO, with the...
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    The first images associated with a source of gravitational waves
    The IAC has participated in the detection of the counterpart, in the visible, the infrared and X-rays, of the source of gravitational waves GW170817 (neutron...
  • News
    The first light pollution laboratory in the Azores
    There are now 10 sensors monitoring the night-time darkness of the island of Corvo to determine the impact of artificial lighting on the sea birds. The...
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    The first meeting of the major astronomical observatories in Spain is held in La Palma
    From Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th October, the first meeting of the large astronomical observatories in Spain will be held in the town of Los Cancajos, La Palma...