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    The residents of Garafía visit the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on a day of sharing
    The Open Day in Garafía, which has been part of the programme of the municipality's Fiestas Patronales for many years, is an expression of the collaboration...
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    The return of Henrietta Leavitt
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias recovers this American woman asronomer as a character in a multimedia play within an outrreach project whose aim is to...
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    The return of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky"
    To celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day, a new chapter of the audiovisual series “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky” is being...
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    The role of active galactic nucleus feedback on the evolution of dwarf galaxies from cosmological simulations: Supermassive black holes suppress star formation in low-mass galaxies
    Recent observational studies suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs)—the energetic centres powered by supermassive black holes—may play an...
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    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory holds a new meeting with its neighbours in Garafía
    Today, Friday 16th August, the traditional Open Day of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) was held for the residents of the village of Garafía, in La...
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    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory serves as an inspiration to the world tourism summit which is being held on La Palma
    A delegation made up of political authorities and representatives of some of the institutions taking part today in the world summit Setting the Recovery of...
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    The Saturn Nebula reveals its complexity
    The IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.
  • News
    The Saturn Nebula reveals its complexity
    The IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.
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    The search for extraterrestrial life
    The existence of life outside the Earth has been a subject of interest to human beings since its origins. Today we can consider their search. Spaceships...