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  • In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA/Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
    Astronomers catch unprecedented features at brink of active black hole
  • Imagen RGB de la Nebulosa del Anillo obtenida con WEAVE/LIFU
    The William Herschel telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory discovers a mysterious iron “bar” in the Ring Nebula
  • Edit-a-thon 11F
    The IAC and Wikimedia Spain promote an edit-a-thon to raise the profile of women in astronomy on Wikipedia
  • Antonia Varela / IAC
    Researcher Antonia Varela, recognised by Forbes as one of the most influential women in the Canary Islands
  • Sebastián Francisco Sánchez / IAC
    IAC collaborator Sebastián Francisco Sánchez, new director of the LVM project
  • MIT Astronomy Field Camp 2026
    MIT holds its astronomy camp at the Teide Observatory and shares its findings at the ULL
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    PD Time domain astrophysics GOTO 2026. PS-2026-006
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and their local environment”. The
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    PD Polarimetric Inference of Magnetic Fields 2026. PS-2026-007
    The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Magnetism, polarization, and radiative transfer in Astrophysics” . The
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