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An international research, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has played a leading role, has found a planet of intermediate size between Earth and Venus orbiting a cool red dwarf 40 light-years away. The new world, named Gliese 12 b, lies within the habitable zone of its star, making it a promising candidate for the James Webb Space Telescope to study its atmosphere. The discovery was made possible thanks to observations from NASA's TESS satellite and other facilities such as CARMENES, at Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA), and MuSCAT2, installed at the Carlos SánchezAdvertised on
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Father Juan Casanovas (1929-2013), a Jesuit astronomer who played an important role in the early years of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has had his name given to asteroid (620307) Casanovas according to a recent announcement in the IAU Bulletin WGSBN. Father Casanovas joined the Observatorio del Teide, then recently created, in 1968, in which he founded the Solar Physics section, and pushed ahead with early testing campaigns which convinced the international scientific community of the excellence of Tenerife and La Palma for solar observations. Thanks to his knowledge ofAdvertised on
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Begoña García Lorenzo, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been appointed coordinator of the Network of Astronomical Infrastructures (RIA), and advisory committee on astronomical affairs of the General Administration of State, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The task of the RIA is to offer guidance about the Scientific-Technical Singular Infrastructures (ICTS in Spanish) and International Installations and Organisms (IOI), promoting collaboration among them. With an important carreer lasting over two decades in astrophysicalAdvertised on