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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.

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  • Asistentes a la reunión del consorcio que desarrolla el instrumento Harmoni en el Hotel Las Águilas del Puerto de la Curz. Crédito: IAC.
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    The members of the group which is developing the HARMONI instrument for the European supertelescope ELT meet in Tenerife.
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been an active participant in the developement of this spectrograph which will be used for the first time on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and which will allow astronomers to observe, with unprecedented accuracy, distant galaxies in an era when the universo was very young. - (Technological Development Projects)
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  • Imagen cedida por ACIISI. Asistentes a la charla "Descubre el Universo" celebrada en el Palacio de Formación y Congresos de Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura). En el escenario, de izquierda a derecha: Enric Pallé, José Alberto Rubiño, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón,
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    Fuerteventura se vuelca con “Descubre el Universo”
    Más de mil personas asistieron ayer a este evento de divulgación científica, celebrado en el Palacio de Formación y Congresos de Puerto del Rosario, donde disfrutaron de una serie de charlas sobre las distintas áreas de investigación en las que trabaja el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y la instrumentación presente y futura en los Observatorios de Canarias.
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  • Cartel charla Descubre el Universo para público general. Crédito: IAC.
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    La ACIISI te invita a descubrir el Universo con el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    El jueves 25 de enero tendrá lugar en el Palacio de Formación y Congresos de Puerto del Rosario, en Fuerteventura, un encuentro de divulgación científica organizado por Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI) y el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) donde personal investigador del centro expondrán los avances en distintos campos de la Astrofísica y la instrumentación presente y futura en los Observatorios de Canarias.
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  • Diagram of stellar orbit statistics for CALIFA galaxies. The higher a galaxy's position, the larger that galaxy's fraction of hot (very elongated) orbits. The farther to the right a galaxy's position, the larger the fraction of cold (nearly circular) orbi
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    CALIFA renews the classification of galaxies
    This project, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is collaborating, has made a map with 300 galaxies close to the Milky Way, which they have classified on the basis of the way the stars are moving, rather than using the morphological classification used until now. The results of this work were recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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  • Distant Milky Way halo giants marked on a Pan-STARRS1 map. Location of our targets overlaid on a RGB rendering of the distribution of Milky Way halo stars. Credit: Giuseppina Battaglia
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    Galaxies that feed on other galaxies
    An international team of astronomers led by Giuseppina Battaglia, researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), finds signs that the outer halo of the Milky Way contains stellar remains of massive dwarf galaxies that were devoured by our own.
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  • NASA, ESA, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI), J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI), N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich), L. Bedin (INAF, Padua), E. Bressert (ESO), P. Crowther (University of Sheffield), A. de
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    Overabundance of massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula
    An international team of astronomers with participation of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has revealed an ‘astonishing’ overabundance of massive stars in a neighbouring galaxy. The discovery, made in a gigantic star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has ‘far-reaching’ consequences for our understanding of how stars transformed the pristine Universe into the one we live in today. The results are published today in the journal Science.
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