News type: Press release

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    Stone laying for the Visitor Centre at the Roque de los Muchachos
    The installations, when built, will serve to boost the island of La Palma as a tourist destination for those interested in the Science and the Astronomy...
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    Students from La Palma measure the darkness at night over the island
    Their results were presented this morning at the “Preserving the Skies” conference held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Starlight Declaration
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    Students from La Palma measure the darkness at night over the island
    Their results were presented this morning at the “Preserving the Skies” conference held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Starlight Declaration
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    Students of the Universidad de La Laguna discover the brightest nova inside the Andromeda Galaxy of 2017
    A group of students from the master in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) detected this nova...
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    Study reveals how binary stars change their stellar dance with age
    Research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered that, in binary systems, stars that evolve into red giants change the way they...
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    Study reveals that giant planets could reach "maturity" much earlier than previously thought
    An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other institutions from...
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    Success of the Connection Tests with SMART-1 from the Teide Observatory
    This satellite constitutes the first mission of the European Space Agency to the Moon
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    Successful closure of the XXXII IAC Winter School
    65 doctoral students and postgraduate researchers from 15 different countries participated, for 9 days, in the XXXII Canary Islands Winter School of...
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    Successful launch of DRAGO, IACTEC’s first infrared camera
    This afternoon the DRAGO infrared camera, developed by the team at IACTEC-Space, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and integrated into the ION...