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The DRAGO camera takes its first images from space
DRAGO, 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 early days of the Milky Way revealedA study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) puts a sequence to the events which gave rise to our Galaxy.
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NewsThe educational programme “ Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” is starting up againAfter a break of two years due to the pandemic, the students of the 4th ESO class in La Palma will again be able to get to know about the astrophysics research...
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NewsThe effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasingThe Director of the Starlight Foundation, and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Antonia M. Varela Pérez has contributed to a monographic...
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NewsThe energetic youth of the dwarf galaxies that surround usAn international team of astronomers, led by an ex‐student of the University of La Laguna (ULL), José R. Bermejo‐Climent, and a researcher at the Instituto de...
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NewsThe Environmental footprint of Artificial LightingThe “Observatorio de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética” Foundation is organizing on October 4th, a seminar with this title at the headquarters...
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NewsThe Equinox from the Basilica of Santa Lucía del TrampalKnown as the only building from the Visigoth era in the southern half of the Spanish península which is still conserved, this church, from the Municipality of...
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NewsThe Eta Aquarids 2018, the first meteor shower in MayThis phenomenon will be visible from the southern hemisphere, and just at our dawn will be visible from the northern hemisphere at mid-latitude. The STARS4ALL...
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NewsThe Eta Aquariids 2021: echos of a meteor shower to study the Solar SystemOn May 5th the Earth will pass through the cloud of dust and small fragments of rock which comet 1P/Halley left behind during one of its approaches to the Sun...