“Las mujeres sostienen la mitad del cielo”, dice un proverbio chino y máxima muy presente en el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), que un año más se...
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NewsEl IAC reivindica la labor de sus trabajadoras en el Día Internacional de la Mujer
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NewsFebruary 11th: an unceasing commitment to equality
Again this year the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is showing its commitment to gender equality by organizing a large number of activities around...
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NewsGIUSEPPE BONO: “We are going to build the largest ground based telescope to fully exploit the Adaptive Optics capabilities”
Giuseppe Bono, astrophysicist and associate professor of the Department of Physics at the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Italy), is currently...
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NewsJOSÉ ANTONIO DE DIEGO: “The use of tunable filters on the GTC will allow us to detect very young and active galaxies”
This astrophysicist from the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of México (IA-UNAM) is here within the Severo Ochoa Visitors Programme...
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NewsMALCOLM FRIDLUND: “If we don’t look outside, we will never know if we are alone in the Universe”
Life, as we know it, exists only on Earth. The emergence of life here may be a matter of probability or luck, but in Science there is no place for the second...
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NewsNOEMÍ PINILLA: “If there really is a Planet X, finding it would force to revise the models of the creation and evolution of the Solar System that didn’t include it”
Noemí Pinilla, a researcher at the Florida Space Institute of the University of Central Florida, has a very close relationship with the Instituto de Astrofísica...
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NewsNORBERT LANGER: "There are still many uncertainties about the evolution of massive stars"
Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s...
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NewsOMAIRA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN: “The Canary Observatories have been essential in the advance of the study of nuclear activity in galaxies”
For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active...
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NewsPAOLO VENTURA: “Understanding how the stars produce dust is fundamental for all the fields of astrophysics”
After participating in the Severo Ochoa Visitors Program which aims at increasing the collaboration between IAC personnel and prestigious researchers from other...