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Students from La Palma measure the darkness at night over the island
Their results were presented this morning at the “Preserving the Skies” conference held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Starlight Declaration
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NewsStudents of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
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NewsStudy reveals how binary stars change their stellar dance with ageResearch led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered that, in binary systems, stars that evolve into red giants change the way they...
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NewsStudy reveals that giant planets could reach "maturity" much earlier than previously thoughtAn international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other institutions from...
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NewsSuccess of the Connection Tests with SMART-1 from the Teide ObservatoryThis satellite constitutes the first mission of the European Space Agency to the Moon
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NewsSuccessful closure of the XXXII IAC Winter School65 doctoral students and postgraduate researchers from 15 different countries participated, for 9 days, in the XXXII Canary Islands Winter School of...
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NewsSuccessful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared cameraThis afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...
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NewsSuccessful test on La Palma of a new adaptive optics technique for very large telescopesThe experiment, with a sodium laser, was performed from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, owing to the exceptional quality of its sky
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NewsSucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...