Topic: Astrophysics

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    Live broadcasts from the Observatories: The European Researchers' Night
    Live broadcasts through its YOUTUBE channel -IAC Videos- from various telescopes present at the Teide and Roque de los Muchachos Observatories.
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    Low-frequency gravity waves in blue supergiants
    Almost all massive stars explode as supernovae and form a black hole or neutron star. The remnant mass and the impact of the chemical yield on subsequent star...
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    LST-1 telescope on La Palma detects the most distant quasar at very high energies
    The first Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía...
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    Lyrids 2020: wishes through the window
    On the night of 21st April we will be treated to the maximum of the Lyrids meteor shower. Just as for the other recent astronomical events we will have to see...
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    MACARENA GARCÍA MARÍN: “Queremos que los científicos del IAC y la comunidad europea en general utilicen el James Webb”
    Durante su última visita al Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hablamos con Macarena García Marín, una de las tres antiguas estudiantes de la...
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    Machine learning reveals the merging history of nearby galaxies
    Research led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has used an innovative technique based on artificial intelligence to study how stars form in...
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    MAGIC telescopes detect the first gamma-rays burst at very high energies
    This ground-breaking achievement by MAGIC provides critical new insight for understanding the physical processes at work in the most powerful cosmic explosions...
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    MAGIC telescopes test the quantum structure of space-time
    The detection of a gamma ray burst by the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory allows us to study whether the speed of light in a vacuum...
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    Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere
    The prestigious journal Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics invites two researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to publish an...