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  • Artistic impression of the Proxima Centauri system, with the planets Proxima b and Proxima d, the latter confirmed by NIRPS
    The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter
  • El director del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, durante el acto de conmemoración del 40 Aniversario / IAC
    El IAC dedica su 40 aniversario a todas las personas que han trabajado para ‘soñar estrellas’
  • La ministra Diana Morant junto al director del CDTI, José Moisés Martín; el director del IAC, Valentín Martínez; la subdirectora del IAC, Eva Villaver y la Secretaria General de Innovación, Teresa Riesgo.
    La ministra de Ciencia anuncia en el Consejo Rector del IAC que el Gobierno de España ofrece hasta 400 millones de euros para construir en La Palma el TMT
  • An artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst (GRB)
    The LST-1 at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory provides new clues about gamma-ray bursts jets
  • Boris Gänsicke, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Warwick
    In the Museo de la Ciencia del Cosmos Boris Gänsicke will unravel the puzzle of how planetary systems will end
  • The Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
    The Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
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    1st UNDARK Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors with Radiowave Observations
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    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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