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Dolmens and the Equinox
Next Sunday, September 23rd, will be the September equinox, the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the vernal equinox in the southern hemisphere...
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NewsDos galaxias muy brillantes “chocarán” a 13.000 millones de años luzNuevas observaciones revelan la próxima fusión de dos galaxias muy lejanas y luminosas, produciendo estrellas 1.000 veces más rápido que en la Vía Láctea, en...
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NewsDRAGO passes its tests for launch into spaceThe flight model for the SWIR DRAGO camera, developed by the IACTEC-Space team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has successfully passed all...
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NewsDRAGO-2 makes its first observations from spaceThe DRAGO-2 instrument, developed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and launched in January from Cape Canaveral, has sent its first images of...
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NewsDwarf galaxies: key laboratories for the study of dark matterThe journal Nature Astronomy publishes today, in its collection of reviews dedicated to dwarf galaxies, a new article written by Giuseppina Battaglia...
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NewsEccentric exoplanet reveals how hot jupiters formAn international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered the extremely eccentric orbit of a gas...
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NewsEducation and social awareness activities to promote the participation of women and girls in ScienceSome 40 women astronomers, engineers and technologists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), from IACTEC and from other collaborating...
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NewsEELabs: sustainable use of artificial lightingInitiation of the European project EELabs. The recent visit of the Mayor of Gúímar to the Teide Observatory sees the start of the Energy Efficiency Laboratories...
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NewsEinstein’s Principle of Equivalence verified in quasars for the first timeAccording to Einstein’s theory of general relativity gravity affects light as well as matter. One consequence of this theory, based on the Principle of...