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  • Momento de la celebración del 30º aniversario del TNG en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
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    El Telescopio Nazionale Galileo celebra en La Palma 30 años de ciencia, descubrimientos e innovación
    Tres jornadas, del 22 al 24 de septiembre, para celebrar la historia del TNG y mirar hacia el futuro de la astronomía Treinta años de investigación astronómica, innovación tecnológica, formación y colaboración internacional. El Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) celebra estos días el 30º aniversario de su inauguración con tres jornadas de actividades que se desarrollan del 22 al 24 de septiembre de 2026 en La Palma. El encuentro, titulado “Thirty Years of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo - Celebrating Past, Present and Future of the Largest Italian Optical Telescope”, reúne a astrónomos
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  • Miguel R. Alarcon, principal investigator at AsteroiDB, at a conference in Hangzhou, China.
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    A predoctoral researcher at the IAC receives a STEP Grant from The Planetary Society
    The Planetary Society , the largest independent organization dedicated to space exploration—founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman— has announced the award of its STEP (Science and Technology Empowered by the Public) Grants , a competitive program that funds innovative projects in science, technology, planetary defense, and the search for life. Among the three selected projects is AsteroiDB, an open platform for collecting, sharing, and analyzing photometric observations of asteroids. The project is led by Miguel R. Alarcón, Director of Scientific Operations at Light
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  • “UNDARK 2026: Illuminating Cosmic Discord” TEAM
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    The Universe’s discrepancies could open the door to new physics
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), through the European UNDARK project and together with CERN, has brought together international experts in cosmology, astrophysics and theoretical physics to analyse some of the discrepancies that are challenging our current understanding of the Universe. The aim is to determine whether they arise from effects in the observations that are not yet fully understood, or whether they conceal unknown physical phenomena still waiting to be discovered. We know more about the Universe than at any other time in history, and we can measure some of its
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  • Artist’s impression of an exoplanet in a retrograde orbit
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    A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star
    Thanks to the NIRPS infrared spectrograph, built with the involvement of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , an international team led by the University of Geneva has been able to identify the unique orbit of the exoplanet GJ 3090 b. An international team, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has determined the orbital configuration of the exoplanet GJ 3090 b using the NIRPS spectrograph, built with the participation of the IAC and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory (ESO
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    The IAC remains fully committed to the development of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory following the TMT decision
    On 18 September 2026, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) received a communication from the Executive Director of the TMT International Observatory (TIO) stating that its partners had been unable to reach the consensus required to accept the financial offer presented by the Ministry on 29 July to begin construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma. The proposal envisaged financing of up to €1 billion: a contribution from the Centre for the
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  • Acto de celebración del vigésimo aniversario del Máster en Astrofísica de la ULL
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    La ULL y el IAC celebran dos décadas del Máster en Astrofísica, uno de los posgrados más reconocidos de España
    El Departamento de Astrofísica de la Universidad de La Laguna celebra el vigésimo aniversario de su Máster en Astrofísica, una de las ofertas de posgrado más reconocidas de España en el ámbito de la Astrofísica y pionera en la implantación de los estudios oficiales de máster en la Universidad de La Laguna. Con motivo de este aniversario, el Aula Magna Blas Cabrera Felipe de la Facultad de Ciencias acogió un acto conmemorativo en el que se repasó la trayectoria de este programa, que durante las dos últimas décadas se ha convertido en un referente nacional e internacional en la formación de
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