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The Law of the Sky is 30 years old
The IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative...
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PublishingThe Law that protects the sky of the Canary Islands celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversaryDespite being an almost insignificant point on the globe, La Palma can probably boast one of the best skies in the world for astronomical observation. Much of...
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DocumentThe laws of heaven. Astronomy and ancient civilizations"This book deals with the origins of the human obsession with time and covers the cultures of prehistory and classical antiquity, analysing how the observation...
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NewsThe Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution, on IAC Winter SchoolLa XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organizada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), tendrá...
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NewsThe longest stellar “dance” in a planetary nebulaThe 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...
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NewsThe LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energyThe first prototype of the Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the LST-1, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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NewsThe MAGIC telescopes help to uncover the origin of a cosmic neutrinoA world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed...
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NewsThe March “Supermoon” will bid goodbye to winter next to the shadow of TeideOn March 9th we can see the second “supermoon” of this year, and the last full moon of winter in the northern hemisphere. With the collaboration of the EELabs...
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NewsThe material that obscures supermassive black holes, the connection with their host galaxiesInvited by Nature Astronomy, Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de...