The image never seen before
The first image of a black hole was announced today, the result of an international project with the participation of a collaborator of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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News
Spectral synthesis codes with no ionized gas emission produce biased estimates of galactic properties
A novel code, developed by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researchers, shows that previous population synthesis codes, which only account for stellar emission, underestimate galaxy properties like mass or age.
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The foundations are laid for the largest radiotelescope in the world
It was signed the treaty for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, being Portugal one of its founding countries, and which has the scientific participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Kepler space telescope confirms its first detection, ten years later
The confirmation of exoplanet candidate Kepler-1658 b, a hot jupiter 2545 light-years away, had the participation of a researcher from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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The Universe
Video: Multiverse
Modern theories of cosmology appear to predict that our region of space is a minuscule fragment of a huge ‘multiverse’, where over vast distances physical properties, and perhaps the nature of physical laws themselves, can change.
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Water in the Universe: the water pathway
Sun-like stars and planetary systems are known to form in interstellar molecular clouds composed mostly of hydrogen and small amounts of other elements like helium, oxygen and carbon.
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Activities
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Past activities
The sky seen through telescopes at the Lisbon Book Fair
Free entrance
The telescopes of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) will be waiting for you next to Gradiva Publicações stands at the Lisbon Book Fair.
Noites no Observatório – Black Holes: New Horizons
Free entrance
Black holes are extremely twisted regions in space (and in time). Learn the journey of the human reasoning about these mysterious objects, and explore the mechanisms invented to detect them.
Noites no Observatório – Extraordinary Space Meeting
Free entrance
This month, we invite you to a special meeting, where we will discuss some of the most inspiring and relevant topics in space exploration.
Noites no Observatório – Strange lifeforms
Free entrance
Are there on Earth organisms capable of surviving in the conditions found in other planets of the Solar System? Let's explore the limits of what we can consider as living.
Noites no Observatório – Planets to the sound of the stars
Free entrance
This month, in the session Noites no Observatório, learn how astronomers "listen" to the sound of the stars, and then use that information to characterise with very high detail the planets around them.
Mars 2030: Session 4 – Beyond Mars
Which other places in the Solar System can we try to inhabit? Will the future generations have a colony awaiting them on one exoplanet? A conversation with researchers Nuno Santos and Ricardo Louro about going beyond Mars.
