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16 December, 202411 December, 2024

Portuguese researcher participates in the planing of a NASA telescope

The Roman space telescope will have a contribution from the European Space Agency (ESA), which selected for one of the committees of this north-American consortium a researcher of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) for his experience in the Euclid Consortium. Read more

Protótipo do Athena On-Board Metrology System

12 December, 202410 December, 2024

New technology from IA closer to go into orbit

European Space Agency (ESA) approved the first prototype of a precision system for the largest X-ray telescope, developed by a team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA). Read more

Atividade do Sol durante o último máximo solar

9 December, 2024

Portugal hosts the world’s largest conference on space weather.

The world’s largest conference on the perturbations from Space and their social and economical impact takes place in Coimbra and is co-organized by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA). Read more

Em junho de 2012, a sonda Hinode (da JAXA e da NASA), dedicada ao estudo do Sol, observou o trânsito do planeta Vénus diante do disco solar. Créditos: JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin

5 December, 20244 December, 2024

A rare Venus solar transit helps unravel atmospheres outside the Solar System

A team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) analysed data from this century’s last Venus solar transit and validated methods to study the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoworlds. Read more

1 October, 202428 November, 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

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O disco da Via Láctea fotografado no deserto do Atacama, no Chile

100 years ago, the Milky Way was displaced from the centre of the Universe

Precisely a century ago, the New York Times newspaper announced that the Andromeda nebula was after all another “island universe”, so big or even bigger than the Milky Way. The Universe had just increased tenfold. Read more

26 November, 202426 November, 2024

Representação artística do exoplaneta K2-18b, mais pequeno que Neptuno, um planeta recentemente observado pelo telescópio espacial James Webb

On breezes never before sailed

With more than five thousand planets already discovered in orbit of other stars, scientists are now launching a new era of surprising discoveries about the exotic atmospheres of these distant worlds. Article by Tomás Silva in National Geographic Portugal. Read more

14 November, 202426 November, 2024

Most detailed map of our galaxy in infrared

Thirteen years of observations led to the most detailed map of Milky Way. Nanda Kumar, an IA collaborator, talked to the podcast Palavra de Cientista about it. Read more

14 November, 2024

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

In search of the planets that are truly wanderers

They are worlds much like planets, but not towed to a star. Were they born in a cradle of stars, or are they planets thrown out from their orbits and left to their own fortune? Article by Koraljka Mužić in National Geographic Portugal. Read more

14 October, 202426 November, 2024

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