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News

  • Cartel de las Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas en el Observatorio del Teide 2025
    The Teide Observatory opens its doors to the public on the weekend of June 21–22
  • Nine galaxies taken from over 700,000 spanning all of cosmic time, from upper left to lower right: the present day universe, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 billion years ago
    The IAC participates in the James Webb telescope's largest map of the universe
  • Imagen del sistema TOI-6894 / IAC
    A giant planet around a tiny star
  • Installation of the LST-4 camera at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory.
    The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory takes a further step into the future with the installation of the LST-4 camera
  • Attendees at the GATO collaboration meeting
    GATOS international collaboration meets at the IAC to unravel the mysteries of active galactic nuclei
  • Artistic recreation of the ExoLife Finder (ELF) telescope
    The IAC opens the call for its Winter School focused on key optical technologies for Astronomy
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Events

  • Upcoming
    Conference
    GaiaAlerts2025: The 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    1st UNDARK Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of Dark Sectors with Radiowave Observations
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  • Upcoming
    Conference
    Brown Dwarfs Keep Their Cool: 30 years of Substellar Science
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    ADMINISTRATIVO/A PS-2025-046
    Resolución de la Dirección del Consorcio Público Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias por la que se adjudica un contrato de un/a Administrativo/a, acogido a Convenio, en la modalidad de sustitución a
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    Ingeniero/a_Mecánico_NRT PS-2025-033
    Se convoca proceso selectivo para la contratación de un/a Ingeniero/a, fuera de Convenio, en la modalidad de contrato laboral de actividades científico-técnicas de duración indefinida y que tendrá
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