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    The CCI supports the option for the TMT to be installed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
    Statement supporting the selection of La Palma for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) site: The Comité Científico Internacional (CCI) of the Canary Islands...
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    The Centre for Astrophysics on La Palma is renamed “Francisco Sánchez” in honour of the founder of the IAC
    The Deputy Director of the IAC, Casiana Muñoz Tuñón praises the bravery and persistence shown by Francisco Sánchez which enabled the IAC to be recognized as one...
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    The CHEOPS mission announces the drawings from Spanish children travelling to space
    4,500 drawings were received from Spanish children and 297 have been selected. About 3,000 works by European children will be engraved on a plaque that will be...
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    The CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
    CHEOPS, 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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    The CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanets
    CHEOPS, 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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    The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has initiated negotiations with Spain for the possible siting of its northern hemisphere headquarters on the Island of La Palma
    A prototype of the large telescope LST of this array will be installed at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory under an agreement between the IAC and the...
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    The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
    A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical...
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    The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
    A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal by Hector Socas-Navarro, a researcher at the IAC, examines the possibility of detecting hypothetical...
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    The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field from the photosphere up to the base of the corona
    Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the...