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Testing fundamental physics with ESPRESSO
Many of the most basic and important physical phenomena are determined by a set of “fundamental constants”, whose values are experimentally known to high...
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NewsTesting the extreme acceleration mechanisms in the supermassive black holes neighborhoodBlazars, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point in the direction of the Earth, dominate the VHE (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray extragalactic sky...
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NewsThe astronomer Guido Münch, a great friend of the IAC, has diedProfessor Guido Münch was the first astronomer to receive the Principe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1989 for which he was...
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NewsThe changing-look optical wind of the flaring X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814The large amount of mass and angular momentum carried by disc winds makes them key processes to understand accretion onto compact objects, such as black holes...
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NewsThe CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planetsCHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...
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NewsThe CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanetsCHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination with Switzerland, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe Computational Dynamics of Fluids, the main theme of the IAC Winter SchoolTuesday 19th November the XXXI edition of the Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias will start. This year it will be devoted to the...
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NewsThe conference “Giving an impulse to Astrophysics in Spain: 50 years of doctoral theses” is inauguratedThis meeting of researchers linked to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and its Observatories opened yesterday with a lectura by Francisco Sanchez...
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NewsThe conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn: astronomical event of the yearThe astronomical event of the year took place on December 21st, a very close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn which was broadcast on Internet in the channel of...