News

18 November, 202118 November, 2021

Measuring the stars: an essential step to learn how the other “Earths” are like

An international team, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), is defining the way PLATO mission, of European Space Agency (ESA), will extract the maximum amount of information from a set of the satellite’s target stars. Read more

14 October, 202114 October, 2021

New research links the compositions of rocky exoplanets and of their host stars

Led by a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), this work was published today in the journal Science. Read more

O céu noturno é rico e dinâmico, do livro "Grandes Ideias em Astronomia

7 October, 202115 October, 2021

Eleven ideas make all there is, and are one click away

On a single website, there’s everything you need to know about Astronomy and the Universe, in direct and everyday language, the yield of a project co-led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and which now becomes an international reference. Read more

20 August, 2021

July was a month for Summer internships

The IAstro Summer Internship program, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and aimed at university students, had its second edition this year. Read more

Activities

Upcoming activities

11 - 27 November , 19h or 21h Porto

Porto Planetarium CCV

RUIDO: Um espetáculo de divulgação científica sobre ondas gravitacionais

Ruído – a show about gravitational waves

Watch Ruído (Noise), a science outreach show about gravitational waves at the Porto Planetarium CCV.

Free entrance

Past activities

25 September, 2021

Space climate: Storm in orbit

The Sun, that quiet disc in the blue sky, is sometimes the source of extreme events that menace our highly technological society. IA researchers answer questions in a live session dedicated to space climate.

24 - 25 September, 2021

Porto, Lisbon, Coimbra and online

IA at the European Researchers’ Night 2021

From Earth to Space, IA's activities are framed within both European Researcher's Night initiatives in 2021 – science for climate, and environment and sustainability. Among our offer of online and physical activities at Planetário do Porto, Lisbon and Coimbra, there's action and knowledge in IA's programme.

Free entrance

The Universe

Threats to the Earth: asteroids, comets and space debris

Discover how asteroids, comets and space debris can represent threats to the Earth and how can we deal with them, in the company of Nuno Peixinho, of IA and FCTUC. Read more

25 November, 202125 November, 2021

Raúl Lima, no Episódio 4 - Poluição Luminosa de Planeta Verde, programa do Porto Canal.

How to see a starry sky in the city again

Raul Lima, of IA and Instituto Politécnico do Porto, talked to Porto Canal about light pollution and how to solve it through simple habits (in Portuguese). Read more

19 November, 2021

Eleven astronomy big ideas

Eleven ideas make all there is, and are one click away. On a single website, there’s everything you need to know about Astronomy and the Universe, in direct and everyday language, and several idioms. Read more

8 October, 202119 November, 2021

Região compacta de formação estelar Sh 2-106

How to forge the most dazzling furnaces of the Milky Way

Let’s imagine several tens of Suns packed in a single star. The final tremendous explosion of such a huge star is felt a long way across the galaxy. Luckily, stars like this are rare, and the reason lies at their birthplace. Read more

1 October, 2021

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