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    The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory
    The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
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    The Nobel Laureate in Physics Klaus von Klitzing visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Teide ObservatoryPHOTONEWS
    Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics, visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in La Laguna, and Teide Observatory on Monday...
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    The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened
    The Gran Telescopio Canarias or GRANTECAN has surpassed, for the first time, the 10,000 face-to-face visits. The forecast is that by the end of the year there...
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    The Obra Social "la Caixa" and the CajaCanarias Foundation award doctoral studentships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    These banking foundations will contribute the sum of €454,000 to fund four doctoral studentships of 4 years duration in two consecutive announcements. The...
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    The online training by PETeR reaches 180 teachers from all over Spain
    This project of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias allows the educational community in Spain to carry out their own research on the universe using...
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    The only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzed
    The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply...
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    The origin of the brightest stellar event in history, the supernova of 1006, ranked second most important astronomical discovery of 2012 by the magazine AstronomyIAC researcher Jonay González heads the study on the front page of 'Nature' in September.
    The popular magazine Astronomy, one of the most widely read in the English-speaking world gives second place in its annual discovery league table an...
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    The origin of the first structures formed in galaxies like the Milky Way identified
    An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology (CAB, CSIC-INTA), with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (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...