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The effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasing
The Director of the Starlight Foundation, and researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Antonia M. Varela Pérez has contributed to a monographic...
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NewsThe Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universeThe Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
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NewsThe European Solar Telescope (EST) has successfully completed the conceptual design review of its suite of scientific instrumentsThe European Solar Telescope (EST) has successfully completed the Conceptual Design Review (CoDR) of its Scientific Instrument Suite (SIS). The scientific...
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NewsThe European Space Agency and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias celebrate their silver anniversary in TenerifeThe workshop “25 years of cooperation in optical technologies and future trends”, will take place next Monday, November 14th, at the Headquarters of the...
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NewsThe evolutionary history of the Milky Way determined in more detail than everThanks to data from the Gaia mission, of the European Space Agency (ESA), and international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
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NewsThe extreme CNO-enhanced composition of a primitive iron-poor dwarf starWe present an analysis of high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectroscopic observations of J0815+4729, an extremely carbon-enhanced, iron-poor dwarf star. These high...
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NewsThe first extensive catalogue of massive stars with low metallicityA recent study, led by the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA) with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) presents the first...
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NewsThe first image of a new gaseous component in a planetary nebula.These results, published by a team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, and obtained using the OSIRIS instrument on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS...
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NewsThe first light pollution laboratory in the AzoresThere are now 10 sensors monitoring the night-time darkness of the island of Corvo to determine the impact of artificial lighting on the sea birds. The...