By virtue of this agreement, signed today at ESA’s European Centre of Space Research and Technology (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, (The Netherlands), Tenerife will...
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NewsThe IAC and ESA sign an agreement to widen the programmes of connection and transmission of optical data at the Teide Observatory
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NewsThe IAC and February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
During the month of February, women researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will take part in lectures, workshops and debates to publicize...
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NewsThe IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids.
The mission is part of the planetary defence strategy of the European Space Agency (ESA) The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting this week the...
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NewsThe IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
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NewsThe IAC organises the CLASP2.1 space mission scientific meeting
From 18 to 20 October, scientists from the USA, Japan and Europe meet at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to discuss the results of the third...
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NewsThe IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...
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NewsThe IAC sends to space its second instrument for Earth observation
The infrared camera DRAGO-2, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space and integrated into the satellite carrier ION-scv007 Glorious Gratia of the Italian company D...
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NewsThe IAC, re-elected to the Science Lab of Microsoft's Azure computer network
A new project from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has been chosed to be carried out in the Science Lab in the seventh edition of the Global...
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NewsThe impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys
The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. New facilities will soon provide imaging...