News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • Image of the Sun taken form Palau, Indonesia on 9th March 2016. The corona is fairly symmetric, because the Sun was at a phase of high activity. The prominences in the chromosphere (red) can also be seen. Credit: J.C: Casado.
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    21st August: the great American eclipse
    On August 21st there will be one of the most anticipated total solar eclipses in recent years: the great American eclipse. The band of totality will cross the United States diagonally from west to east More that 100 million people should be able to watch the eclipse directly.
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  • The Perseids from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory with the MAGIC telescopes during the night of 11th and 12th of August 2016. Credit: Daniel López/IAC.
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    The Perseids 2017
    The European project STARS4ALL and sky-live.tv will show live the Perseid meteor shower from the Teide Observatory and the Montsec Astronomical Park. The STARS4ALL presentation will also include educational activities for students.
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  •   Jóvenes becados y tutores, en la entrada principal de la sede central del IAC, en La Laguna. Crédito: Miguel Briganti (IAC).  
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    Telescope Summer
    The IAC’s summer studentships are a unique opportunity for training in astrophysical research, technological development, and science outreach.
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  • El panel superior muestra las diferentes velocidades horizontales a tres alturas distintas, mientras que el panel inferior muestra la velocidad de rotación vertical. Los círculos rojos, con 150 km de radio, muestran el tamaño del flujo de los vórtices peq
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    Inteligencia artificial para estudiar el Sol
    Por primera vez, investigadores del IAC aplican técnicas de aprendizaje automático para estudiar los movimientos horizontales del plasma en la superficie solar. “DeepVel”, la red neuronal que han desarrollado, aprende por sí misma a interpretar los datos, mejora los métodos anteriores y permite observar estructuras no detectadas previamente.
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  • El telescopio robótico MASTER-IAC en el Observatorio del Teide (Izaña, Tenerife), utilizado en la observación de rayos gamma GRB160625B. Crédito: Daniel Padrón/IAC.
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    A gamma ray burst observed in unprecedented detail
    A study which will be published tomorrow in Nature magazine and in which IAC researchers have participated, with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER-IAC at the Teide Observatory will help to clear up some unknown factors in the initial phase and the evolution of the huge jets of matter and energy which form as a consequence of these explosions, which are the most powerful in the universe.
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