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The silent beauty of the night sky
Yesterday saw the start of the Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society) organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs...
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NewsThe Solar System Group at the IAC discovers a new asteroid near the EarthThe discovery of 2024 NP2 took place during the night of July 4th in images taken during the commissioning of the TST, a new telescope recently installed at the...
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NewsThe Solstice and RomeRome, with its knowledge of the skies, oriented many of its cities according to the position of the heavenly bodies, notably to sunsets and sunrises during the...
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NewsThe Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrographThe remnant of this huge supernova, chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA, is the third photograph taken with this telescope within the NIÉPCE...
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NewsThe Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million eurosIn the document presenting the General National Budget for 2021 approved by the Council of Ministers for 2021, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe splendour of the Seven SistersThis picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC...
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NewsThe star cluster Westerlund 1: a nursery of giant stars within the shadowsA scientific team led by the University of Alicante, with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has produced a detailed study of the...
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NewsThe structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealedA Master’s degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra...
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NewsThe Sun revealedToday saw the closure in Arrecife (Lanzarote) of the IV SOLARNET Meeting "The Sun, from its interior to its outer atmosphere" at which the international...