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The IAC’s 37th Winter School turns Tenerife into the world capital of massive stars for two weeks

IACOB is an ambitious long-term project whose main scientific goal is to provide an unprecedented empirical overview of the ...
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UNDARK presents “SUPERNOVAE”, an illustrated journey through the death of stars

The illustrated publication “SUPERNOVAE. How stellar deaths shape our universe” explores stellar explosions and their ...
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Sky protection

In this section you will find all the information and help necessary techniques to carry out projects of exterior lighting so that they meet with the regulations regarding the protection of the ...
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El IAC reúne a su personal investigador para avanzar en la búsqueda de la naturaleza de la materia oscura

Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Materia Oscura, el proyecto transversal del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ...
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UNDARK presenta «SUPER NOVAE», un viaje ilustrado por la muerte de las estrellas

La publicación ilustrada «SUPER NOVAE. Cómo las muertes estelares conforman nuestro universo» explora las explosiones ...
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El IAC participa en la XXII edición de las Semanas de la Ciencia y la Innovación de Canarias

El Instituto ofrecerá actividades gratuitas durante el mes de noviembre, entre ellas visitas a su Sede Central y a IACTEC, ...
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The Gran Telescopio Canarias discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universe

A study, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and carried out with OSIRIS, an instrument on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), has found the most densely populated ...
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias • IAC

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The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies

An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2 billion years of the age of the Universe. The ...
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Discovery of relativistic jets blowing bubbles in the central region of the Teacup Galaxy

A study led by Anelise Audibert, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), reveals a process that explains the peculiar morphology of the central region of the Teacup galaxy, a ...
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The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter

The new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, has ...
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An amino acid essential for life is found in interstellar space

The IAC researcher Susana Iglesias-Groth has discovered the existence of tryptophan, an amino acid essential for the formation of proteins and the develoment of living organisms, within a stellar ...