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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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  • Rafael Rebolo, director of the IAC and Günter Koch, president of the Humbolt Cosmos Multiversity, during the presentation of the "First European Workshop on knowledge and technology transfer from Astrophysics". Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC).
    The IAC confirms its commitment to technology transfer
    After the first “European Workshop on Technology and Knowledge Generated by Astrophysics” the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Rafael Rebolo repeated his aim of continuing to work to transfer advances to society as a whole.
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    The CTA-North Observatory: a network of opportunities for Spanish industry
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Centre for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) are organizing a one day event in Madrid to inform about the opportunities offered to Spanish industry during the construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in the northern hemisphere.
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  • Figure 1: Visualization of the temperature structure across a vertical slice through a three-dimensional (3D) model of the solar atmosphere, taken from a state-of-the-art magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of the chromosphere-corona transition region (see Carlsson et al. 2016; A&A, 585, A4). The solid curve shows the heights (Z) in this model where the line-center photons of the hydrogen Lyman-α line observed by CLASP stem from (note that it practically delineates the model’s transition region). The investigat
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    A Sun more complex than expected
    The CLASP suborbital rocket experiment, motivated by theoretical investigations carried out at the IAC, provided unprecedented observations of the polarization of the solar ultraviolet radiation. The theoretical modeling of these pioneering observations has revealed that the enigmatic chromosphere-corona transition region is extremely corrugated, with a geometry much more complex than in today’s most advanced models.
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