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The disc of the Milky Way is bigger than we thought
A team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the National Astronomical Observatories of Beijing (NAOC) have published a paper...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images from spaceDRAGO, the infrared camera developed by the team at IACTEC-Space of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has seen its “first light”. The instrument, placed...
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NewsThe DRAGO camera takes its first images of the Canaries from spaceThe DRAGO ( Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations) camera, developed entirely by the team of IACTEC-Microsatellites of the Instituto de...
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NewsThe early days of the Milky Way revealedA study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) puts a sequence to the events which gave rise to our Galaxy.
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NewsThe educational programme “ Our students and the Roque de los Muchachos” is starting up againAfter a break of two years due to the pandemic, the students of the 4th ESO class in La Palma will again be able to get to know about the astrophysics research...
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NewsThe effects of light pollution on astronomy are increasingThe 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 EMIR spectrograph is now installed on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC)PHOTONEWSOn Thursday June 2 nd the EMIR spectrograph was successfully linked to the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC). After several days of trials following its arrival at...
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NewsThe energetic youth of the dwarf galaxies that surround usAn international team of astronomers, led by an ex‐student of the University of La Laguna (ULL), José R. Bermejo‐Climent, and a researcher at the Instituto de...
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NewsThe Environmental footprint of Artificial LightingThe “Observatorio de las Energías Renovables y la Eficiencia Energética” Foundation is organizing on October 4th, a seminar with this title at the headquarters...