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1 October, 202413 October, 2024

Scientists discover exoplanet orbiting closest single star to our Sun

Barnard b, an exoplanet with half the mass of Venus, was discovered by a team that includes several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers Read more

26 September, 202430 September, 2024

Most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way revealed

This map is the result of two observational surveys, spanning over more than 13 years, that had the participation of an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço collaborator Read more

5 September, 20244 September, 2024

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço paves the way in the field of Exoclimatology

Three papers about “hot jupiter” WASP-76 b, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, will be the foundation for understanding the global climate of a giant exoplanet Read more

Conceção artística de um planeta nómada, ou errante, com a nebulosa NGC 1333 apresentada em fundo. Os planetas errantes, n

27 August, 202426 August, 2024

Six new worlds discovered adrift in a cradle of stars

An international team with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used the James Webb telescope to find planetary-mass objects, but freely moving in interstellar space. Read more

15 July, 202415 July, 2024

World experts in asteroseismology gather in international conference in Porto

The largest conference in the field of asteroseismology is organized by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, and is being held in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Read more

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27 September, 2024 Lisbon and Porto

Several locations

European Researchers Night 2024

In another European Researchers Night, join IA in this celebration of scientific research.

Free entrance

14 - 15 September, 2024 Barrancos

Cineteatro de Barrancos e Parque de Natureza de Noudar

BarranCosmos 2024

Barrancos and the Nature Reserve at Noudar welcome a starparty where IA researchers will also participate.

Free entrance

Resources and Contents

Ana Rita Silva, no observatório de La Silla, Chile, 2024

Desert nights – guided visit to Chilean observatories

In a new video she filmed in Chile, Ana Rita Silva, PhD researcher at IA and Porto University, guides us on a visit to two observatories – La Silla and Paranal, of the European Sourthern Observatory – and tells us how discoveries about planets light-years away from the Solar System are made. Read more

2 October, 20242 October, 2024

Radiotelescópio Colombo da Estação RAEGE de Santa Maria

From Azores to the Universe

A PhD student at IA contributed to launching the astrophyskcal observations programme of the RAEGE-Az radiotelescope, on Santa Maria island, Azores. Read more

2 October, 20242 October, 2024

IA researcher is in the Arctic and will help “hunt” aurorae.

Filipa Barros is PhD student at IA and Porto University and uses computing engineering to the study of solar physics. The Sun paved her way to colder territories: the next four months she will be at 78° North, in Svalbard, Spitsbergen archipelago, Norway. Read more

6 September, 20242 October, 2024

The technology and science of the largest telescope in the world

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), of ESO, will be one of the forthcoming technological marvels of Humankind. Alexandre Cabral talked to Expresso newspaper of the expectations regarding what will become the largest telescope ever. Read more

14 August, 2024

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