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This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

  • The discovery of two white dwarfs that will soon merge will allow scientist to test Eintein's General Relativity. As depicted in this artist's impression,  mass will flow from one of the white dwarfs to the other in less than a million years, and the syst
    We report the detection of orbital decay in the 12.75-minute, detached binary white dwarf (WD) SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 (hereafter J0651). Our   photometric observations over a 13 month baseline constrain the orbital period to 765.206543 (55) s and indicate that the orbit is decreasing at a rate of  (- 9.8 ± 2.8) ´10 -12 s/s  (or -0.31 ± 0.09 ms/yr). We revise the system parameters based on our new photometric and spectroscopic observations: J0651 contains two WDs with M 1 = 0.26 ± 0.04 M sun and M 2 = 0.50 ± 0.04 M sun.  General relativity predicts orbital decay due to  gravitational wave
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  • OCAM 2 cuadriplica la resolución y multiplica por tres la velocidad de instrumentos similares. Con este dispositivo, que se unirá al sistema óptico adaptativo del GTC, el mayor telescopio del mundo podrá vencer las turbulencias de la atmósfera terrestre y obtener imágenes con una nitidez similar a la del telescopio espacial Hubble.
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  • Las grandes transformaciones que experimentan las galaxias en su interior marcarán el futuro de las investigaciones sobre su evolución. Este candente campo de investigación ha centrado la XXIII edición de la 'Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics', organizada por el IAC. Dos semanas de charlas y debates que concluyen hoy en el Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife).
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  • CANARY ISLANDS WINTER SCHOOLS OF ASTROPHYSICS Video: interview Daniela Calzetti Conference "Astronomía desde el espacio: 20 años de descubrimientos" por Daniela | Calzetti, Universidad de Massachus etts Others (in preparation) See also: Talks Videos Winter School 2011  
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