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Tenerife, a knowledge-based island
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias hosts a panel debate about ways for economic and social growth, with Leif Edvinsson and Günter Koch, experts on...
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NewsThe agreement for the construction of the ANDES instrument on the ELT is signedThe European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with an international consortium of institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe countdown for the launch of ALISIO-1 has begunThe first Canary Earth Observation Satellite, belonging to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all the pre-launch technical...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images from spaceDRAGO, the infrared camera developed by the team at IACTEC-Space of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has seen its “first light”. The instrument, placed...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from spaceThe DRAGO ( Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) camera, developed entirely by the team of IACTEC-Microsatellites of the Instituto de...
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universeThe Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope will be installed on La PalmaThe 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 Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxiesAn international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space missionThe World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...