Topic: Technology

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    The European Solar Telescope (EST) has successfully completed the conceptual design review of its suite of scientific instruments
    The European Solar Telescope (EST) has successfully completed the Conceptual Design Review (CoDR) of its Scientific Instrument Suite (SIS). The scientific...
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    The European Solar Telescope will be installed on La Palma
    The International Scientific Committee (CCI for its initials in Spanish) of the Canary Observatories has given the go-ahead for the siting of the installation...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
    An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
    The World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...
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    The HiPERCAM camera of the Gran Telescopio Canarias reveals new details about the oldest stars in the Milky Way
    An international study, using the high-speed HiPERCAM camera, installed in the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), has determined for the first time the mass and...
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    The IAC and the ULPGC renew their collaboration agreement on medical technology
    The Director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Rafael Rebolo; the Deputy Director, Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón; the Rector of the University of Las...
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    The IAC celebrates the 16th edition of ‘Our Science Day’, an internal meeting to share scientific and technological advances
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) today held the 16th edition of the ‘Our Science Day’, an annual internal event which brought together its...
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    The IAC develops its first photonic chip for the astrophysical instrumentation
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has put itself on the frontier of astrophysical technology by developing the first integrated photonic circuit designed...
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    The IAC hosts the international conference “China–Spain Astronomical Collaboration on High-Resolution Spectroscopy 2025”
    Researchers from around the world are taking part in the China–Spain Astronomical Collaboration on High-Resolution Spectroscopy 2025, an event organised by the...