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    Expo at IACTEC: Clemencia Hardisson
    This exhibition is a journey through the life of the La Laguna aristocrat Clemencia Hardisson, who, among other contributions, gave the land on which the IAC...
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    Fast and furious: detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole from La Palma
    This is the first publication based entirely on data obtained with EMIR, an instrument developed in the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which...
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    February 11th: an unceasing commitment to equality
    Again this year the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is showing its commitment to gender equality by organizing a large number of activities around...
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    Fifth edition of the “Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes” meeting
    In this international meeting, organized between 25th and 30th June in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife) by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the...
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    Fifth meeting on “Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes” inaugurated
    From today, and until Friday the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is organizing at the Hotel Botánico in Puerto de La Cruz (Tenerife) this...
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    First images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
    After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
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    First light for MEGARA on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
    The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last...
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    First light of ESPRESSO: a new generation of hunters for Earth-like planets
    ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) on ESO’s very Large Telescope has made its first successful...