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  • News
    The JWST view of the barred galaxy population in the SMACS0723 galaxy cluster
    The cosmic evolution of the barred galaxy population provides key information about the secular evolution of galaxies and the settling of rotationally dominated...
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    The latest advances in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and their consequences for problems such as that of dark matter have been presented
    HC2NP2019, the second conference on "Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches" organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Puerto de la...
  • News
    The Law of the Sky is 30 years old
    The IAC and the Canary Island Observatories are celebrating this anniversary with a series of activities in the framework of the “Protect your sky” initiative...
  • Publishing
    The Law that protects the sky of the Canary Islands celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary
    Despite being an almost insignificant point on the globe, La Palma can probably boast one of the best skies in the world for astronomical observation. Much of...
  • Document
    The laws of heaven. Astronomy and ancient civilizations
    "This book deals with the origins of the human obsession with time and covers the cultures of prehistory and classical antiquity, analysing how the observation...
  • News
    The Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution, on IAC Winter School
    La XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organizada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), tendrá...
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    The longest stellar “dance” in a planetary nebula
    The two discovered stars revolve around each other in an orbit that lasts more than nine years. This research led by the IAC helps to understand how the...
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    The LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the Crab Pulsar at very high-energy
    The first prototype of the Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the LST-1, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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    The MAGIC telescopes help to uncover the origin of a cosmic neutrino
    A world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed...