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  • Grant
    Grants Severo Ochoa for centres of excellence Call 2019
    The IAC is the most important astrophysics research centre in Spain. Its new Strategic Plan mainly seeks excellence in science and to strengthen and consolidate...
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    HARMONI pases its design revisión and will be the spectrograph on the future ELT
    The IAC is a member of the consortium of this instrument, which has passed its critical tests, and incorporates a powerfuls system of adaptive optics which will...
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    Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
    An international team of astronomers, in which IAC researchers participate, have discovered barium, the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere...
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    Heavy metal planet fragment survives destruction from dead star
    Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) have discovered the remains of a planet inside a disc of...
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    Helium signal reveals the comet-like tail of exoplanet WASP-69b for the first time
    An international group of scientist led by researches from the IAC detect the evaporation of atmospheric helium on the giant exoplanet WASP-69b.
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    Hospital Universitario de Canarias and IAC make progress in the early detection of colon cancer with artificial intelligence
    The Anatomical Pathology service of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Canarias (HUC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are partners in...
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    How solar prominences vibrate
    An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has cataloged around 200...
  • Talk
    Hunting exoplanets with the ESPRESSO spectrograph
    The search for extrasolar planets is one of the fastest-growing fields of astronomy. This rapid growth was both made possible by the development of...
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    IAC astronomers find a star in the Milky Way that shouldn’t really exist
    Its very low content of metals, and specifically of carbon, put in question the current models of low mass star formation in the early universe