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The return of Henrietta Leavitt
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias recovers this American woman asronomer as a character in a multimedia play within an outrreach project whose aim is to...
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NewsThe Roque de los Muchachos Observatory holds a new meeting with its neighbours in GarafíaToday, Friday 16th August, the traditional Open Day of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) was held for the residents of the village of Garafía, in La...
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NewsThe Roque de los Muchachos Observatory serves as an inspiration to the world tourism summit which is being held on La PalmaA delegation made up of political authorities and representatives of some of the institutions taking part today in the world summit Setting the Recovery of...
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NewsThe Saturn Nebula reveals its complexityThe IAC has participated in a study that shows unexpected complexity in the distribution of gas and dust in one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky.
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NewsThe Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda visits the Roque de los Muchachos ObservatoryToday, 10 October, the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, David Lucas, visited the facilities of the Roque de los Muchachos...
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NewsThe Solar System Group at the IAC discovers a new asteroid near the EarthThe discovery of 2024 NP2 took place during the night of July 4th in images taken during the commissioning of the TST, a new telescope recently installed at the...
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NewsThe Spaghetti Nebula, a new image by the IAC’s remote astrographThe remnant of this huge supernova, chosen as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) by NASA, is the third photograph taken with this telescope within the NIÉPCE...
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NewsThe Spanish Goverment increases the budget of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias by 9 million eurosIn the document presenting the General National Budget for 2021 approved by the Council of Ministers for 2021, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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NewsThe splendour of the Seven SistersThis picture of the Periades star cluster is the fifth photograh taken with the astrograph of the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3) of the IAC...