☄️ Using observations made with the Grantecan, a study led from the #IACastrofísica and the Complutense has confirmed a new Trojan asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars 🔴

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🖼️ Gabriel Pérez (SMM, IAC)

The citizen scientists at Active Asteroids announced the discoveries of 15 rare active asteroids! Congratulations to Colin Chandler & the team!

science.nasa.gov/get-involved/c…

One of our latest works, published this month on A&A
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Once again, the rapid first-response capability of the Canary Islands Observatories (GTC & TTT telescopes) has contributed to a significant advancement in our knowledge of Near-Earth Objects.

Meet the fastest large telescope in the world, the 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope at the heart of Rubin Observatory. 200+ tons of glass and steel, able to make a 180° turn in less than 20 seconds.

I'm starting a curated list of interactive machine learning demos:
github.com/MilesCranmer/a…. Looking for more suggestions!

My plan is to incorporate some into the ML modules of Cambridge's new MPhil in Data Intensive Science, as a way to hone students' intuition.

La semana pasada nos encontrábamos en el sur de Groenlandia, retransmitiendo las auroras boreales que veíamos desde el campamento Fletanes, frente al glaciar Qaleraliq.

Una experiencia inolvidable, que puedes ver aquí ⬇️

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Our paper on the genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands, led by Javier Serrano, is out today in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

We found our first potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, using the HelioLinC3D code that will power Rubin Observatory's LSST survey!! Written by The DiRAC Institute's Ari Heinze, the new code can identify asteroids with half the observations as needed before. washington.edu/news/2023/07/3… . 🧵 👇

And Javier Serrano will be presenting his work on the genomic history of the Canary Islands in poster #961

Durante la duración de la emergencia volcánica, que nos ha obligado a permanecer cerrados para proteger el telescopio, hemos aprovechado para instalar nuestra nueva plataforma de manteniendo de media luna HMP (Half Moon Plarform).

Astrónomos de Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell junto con los Técnicos de Operaciones Telescópicas del IAC Astrofísica han detectado con el telescopio #IAC80 del #OTTenerife el débil tránsito del #exoplaneta WASP-156b.

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📸 Daniel Lopez/IAC
📈 #ExoClock Ariel Space Mission

A simulated image of the solar system around a nearby star at 10 microns with an ELT like TMT or GMT. Just sayin' ... #Astro2020

All 6 huge filters for the Rubin Observatory camera have been fabricated, coated & delivered to SLAC! The 3200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space & Time Camera will be the largest digital camera ever built. ow.ly/AJvA50Gy2C7

Credit:@Livermore_Lab/G.McLeod

Los últimos trabajos del grupo Energy Efficiency Laboratories (EELabs), portada de la revista @astronomia_mag de noviembre.

The paper describing design, construction and deployment of our prototype GOTO instrument on La Palma has now been accepted by RAS Journals! An important milestone for our collaboration, but we're already working hard on the next stage of upgrades arxiv.org/abs/2110.05539

Nuestro compañero Jaime Zamorano (Jaime Zamorano), galardonado con el Crawford Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award de la DarkSky International por su lucha contra la contaminación lumínica.

¡Enhorabuena por ese merecidísimo reconocimiento!

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❗️Nuevas oportunidades para trabajar en los Observatorios de Canarias (IAC Astrofísica )

El Telescope Operations Group of IAC convoca 2 nuevas plazas para titulados en Física, Matemáticas o Ingeniería:

Operador de Telescopios: iac.es/es/ofertas-de-…
Ing. de Software: iac.es/es/ofertas-de-…

Comunicado del IAC Astrofísica sobre la erupción volcánica en La Palma

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Medir la oscuridad en lugares remotos 🔎📊💡

Así es el nuevo fotómetro SG-WAS que ayudará a conocer el impacto de la luz artificial nocturna sobre las áreas naturales protegidas de la Macaronesia para Energy Efficiency Laboratories (EELabs)

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📸 Miguel Rodríguez Alarcón (IAC)

A powerful experimental laser, based on ESO technology and developed with MPB Communications and @toptica_ag , passed a key test at @avso_de . Its eventual home will be at the @ESA Optical Ground Station in Tenerife.
🔗 eso.org/public/announc…
Credit: F. Kamphues/ ESO