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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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  • Attendees at the 2025 ExGal-Twin Regional Workshop on European Project Management held at the IACTEC headquarters in Tenerife
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    The IAC promotes European Project Management with the ExGal-Twin 2025 workshop
    The Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) is promoting knowledge about European project management with a dedicated forum taking place on April 23 and 24 at the IACTEC headquarters in Tenerife. The 2025 ExGal-Twin Regional Workshop on European Project Management is an event organized by the ExGal-Twin project and the Office of Transfer and Institutional Actions (OTAI) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), under the title "Innovation in European Project Management: Challenges and Opportunities" . The main objective of this workshop is to bring together R&D&I entities
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  • Dr Matt Mountain's talk at the IAC's Aula in La Laguna
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    Matt Mountain meets young IAC talents during the STARMUS festival
    In the framework of the STARMUS festival, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias received the visit of Dr. Matt Mountain, current president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and former director of the Gemini observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScl). During his visit to Tenerife, Mountain had an informal meeting with the scientific community of the IAC, especially with the younger research staff: PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and researchers with Ramon y Cajal contracts. The meeting, which took place in the institution's
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    Evolution of stellar magnetic activity: the Sun has similar magnetic activity as its pairs
    It’s been decades since the need to study other stars to understand the past, present and future of the Sun was realized. One important aspect that has been investigated is the magnetic activity of stars for which we cannot fully grasp the mechanisms involved. Indeed, the origin of stellar magnetic cycles or the dependence of the magnetic activity on the stellar properties are not completely understood. This knowledge improves not only our understanding of the physics involved in stellar evolution but also affects the study of the Sun to better predict high-energy events and the better
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  • James Webb Space Telescope image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514
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    The James Webb Space Telescope captures 'the wedding rings' of a stellar couple
    An international team, including a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has obtained an incredible image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), revealing the nebula's spectacular dusty rings in unprecedented detail. NGC 1514 was one of the first nebulae to be studied by astronomer William Herschel, who noted that when viewed through his telescope (the biggest in the World at the time) the nebula looked like a fuzzy cloud somewhat similar in appearance to one of his other discoveries: the planet Neptune. The new images acquired
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  • Image of galaxy M101 with supernova SN 2023ixf.
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    The WEAVE spectrograph captures the interaction of supernova SN 2023ixf with its surroundings one year after its explosion.
    A study conducted with the new WEAVE , installed on the Telescopio William Herschel (WHT) at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma), and in whose construction the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participated, has revealed clear signs of shock interaction in the Type II supernova SN 2023ixf. Almost a year after the explosion, the data obtained with WEAVE reveal complex emission features that provide new clues about the processes shaping the final stages of massive star evolution. SN 2023ixf, located in the nearby galaxy M101, is the closest Type II supernova
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