News type: Press release

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    The IAC participates in the exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’ on the European space mission PLATO
    The exhibition, opened at the Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha, brings the search for Earth-like planets closer to the public and displays...
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    The IAC participates in the first 3D mapping of the atmosphere of an exoplanet
    An international team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participates, has succeeded in mapping for the first time the three-dimensional...
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    The IAC participates in the James Webb telescope's largest map of the universe
    The largest observation program of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released its data: nearly 800,000 galaxies observed in unprecedented detail. COSMOS...
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    The IAC participates in the study of an unusual merger of two dwarf galaxies in a cosmic void environment
    An international team of researchers, including researchers from the IAC, have studied in detail a remarkable couple of dwarf galaxies “dancing with each other”...
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    The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
    The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...
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    The IAC patents a key technology for improving the quality of space images
    The European Patent Office (EPO) has granted the IAC a patent on an invention developed within IACTEC-Space . This technology improves the quality of images...
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    The IAC performs a simulation of the formation and evolution of a cluster of galaxies using the supercomputer "Teide-HPC"
    This animation covers a time span of 13,000 million years, almost the complete lifetime of the universe
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    The IAC presents DRAGO-3, its new infrared camera for satellite constellations
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has started its development of DRAGO-3 , the third generation of its instrument: Demonstrator for Remote Analysis...
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    The IAC presents the advances made by IACTEC-Space and other CELESTE laboratories at Space Tech Expo Europe
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through IACTEC-Space, is participating this week in Space Tech Expo Europe, the largest space industry trade...