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    The University of Almería invests Astrophysicist John Beckman as Doctor Honoris Causa
    Astrophysicist John Etienne Beckman, Emeritus Research Professor of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), was awarded an honorary doctorate today by...
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    The VI Conference “Science with the Gran Telescopio Canarias” opens
    The scientific meeting about the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world was inaugurated today, Wednesday 12th December, in the centre of the...
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    The VI Conference “Science with the Gran Telescopio Canarias” opens
    The scientific meeting about the largest optical and infrared telescope in the world was inaugurated today, Wednesday 12th December, in the centre of the...
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    The Visitor Centre at the Roque de los Muchachos and the Starmus Festival: two gateways to the Universe and to the recovery of La Palma
    The Cabildo of La Palma, the Town Council of Garafía, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) yesterday inaugurated the Visitor Centre at the Roque...
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    The Walk of the Stars of Science is inaugurated in La Palma
    On Saturday, the Cabildo of La Palma, the City Council of Santa Cruz de la Palma, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) inaugurated the Walk of the...
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    The WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope takes its first light data at the ORM
    The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the WEAVE instrument team present the first observations with this new instrument. This is a powerful latest...
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    The William Herschel Telescope in La Palma measures the size of a stellar-mass black hole jet
    Researchers of the IAC participate in a study appearing today in Nature Astronomy, in which they have measured the delay between the X-rays and the visible...
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    The Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on Big Data Comes to a Close
    For five days more than 80 students immersed themselves in techniques for the handling and analysis of large databases using computer programmes.
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    The women astrophysicists and engineers at the IAC, in the foreground
    The second chapter of “Girls who broke a glass ceiling looking at the sky” will be published today. This continues the audiovisual series which was initiated...