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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...
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    The Perseids 2020
    On the night of 12th to 13th August we will be able to enjoy the maximum of the Perseids. This will be broadcast live, from the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) and...
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    The Perseids 2021: the most awaited meteor shower of the summer
    For yet another year the sky-live.tv channel will be broadcasting the maximum of the Perseids from the Canary Observatories, with the collaboration of the...
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    The Perseids2019, a spectacle in the early hours
    On the nights of August 12th and 13th we will be able to get maximum enjoyment of the Perseids. They will be broadcast live from the Observatory of Oukaimeden...