News type: Press release

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    Tomorrow the IV Spanish Meeting on Active Galactic Nuclei starts in Tenerife
    The meeting, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Network of Astronomical Infrastructure (RIA for its initials in Spanish), aims...
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    Total eclipse of the sun: 20TH MARCH. GLORIA will transmit images in real time, from the Faroe Islands
    A team of astronomers situated in northerly latitudes, the Faroe Islands, will observe and transmit in real time (web platform: sky-live.tv) the details of the...
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    Total eclipse of the supermoon
    Canaries is the best place in Europe from which to view this astronomical event
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    Total Lunar Eclipse
    After more than two years without total lunar eclipses visible from Europe, next July 27 the Moon will cross the shadow of the Earth. With a totality of 102m...
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    Total solar eclipse from Indonesia
    The astronomic event will be webcast live through sky-live.tv the night of 8 to 9 March.
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    Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
    This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
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    Toyota Canarias donate a vehicle to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
    The ceremony took place this morning at the IAC Headquarters in La laguna
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    Traces of a planet having been devoured by its central star
    Investigators from the IAC and Geneva Observatory find evidence that the star HD 82943, with two Jupiter-like planet orbiting around it, must have had at least...
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    Transit of Mercury, live
    Monday 9th of May, the YouTube channel of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will be broadcasting live the observations being carried out by the...