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The European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias is participating in a programme to monitor potentially dangerous asteroidsLast Monday the GTC observed the asteroid 2019 DS1 in the context of a collaborative programme between the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the...
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NewsThe IAC hosts the international conference “China–Spain Astronomical Collaboration on High-Resolution Spectroscopy 2025”Researchers from around the world are taking part in the China–Spain Astronomical Collaboration on High-Resolution Spectroscopy 2025, an event organised by the...
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NewsThe IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matterThe detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
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NewsThe IAC moves towards becoming a global benchmark in the manufacture of optical elementsThe Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through its Optics Department and the Center for Advanced Optical Systems (CSOA), is taking a new step towards...
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NewsThe IAC participates in the James Webb telescope's largest map of the universeThe 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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NewsThe IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONIThe 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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NewsThe IAC patents a key technology for improving the quality of space imagesThe European Patent Office (EPO) has granted the IAC a patent on an invention developed within IACTEC-Space . This technology improves the quality of images...