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9 June, 202016 July, 2020

A miniature Solar System and the youngest rocky exoplanets

An international team, which includes several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), has discovered a “miniature” version of our Read more

26 May, 202016 July, 2020

ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth

An international team, with the participation of several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), used the ESPRESSO spectrograph to confirmed the presence of the exoplanet Proxima b, the nearest “exo-Earth” to our Solar System. Read more

13 May, 202016 July, 2020

A new machine learning tool to derive stellar parameters

A team from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço developed an automatic computational tool, able to quickly and reliably derive stellar parameters of red dwarf stars. Read more

11 May, 202016 July, 2020

Awarded Euclid’s exploration track

A prize from one of the large European Space Agency missions was awarded to a team with a strong participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

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11 September, 2020

Astronomy in Questions and Answers – Special Event ENAA 2020

What if a panel of researchers answered the questions about the Universe you have always wanted to ask but never knew who to ask them? That is what will happen on the 11th of September, in the public event of the 30th Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica (ENAA 2020).

25 July, 2020

O Universo Online: À procura de uma outra Terra

Searching for another Earth

Learn how astronomers detect planets orbiting other stars, and how they can know, despite the distance, if any of them is similar to Earth, with Pedro Figueira, of ESO and IA (in Portuguese).

27 June, 2020

20 years of Portugal at ESO

Participate in an online session to celebrate twenty years of the expansion of Portuguese Astronomy with ESO. From the discoveries enabled by ESO telescopes to the adventure of building astronomical instruments at the leading-edge, there is plenty to celebrate.

30 May, 2020

Revele o Universo... com as suas perguntas

Reveal the Universe… with your questions

Discover the Universe asking questions to a panel of five IA researchers.

The Universe

Conceção artística do sistema planetário em torno da estrela anã vermelha Gliese 581.

How many Earths are there in the Milky Way?

In a clear night sky, the human eye can see some 3000 stars, all of them in our galactic neighbourhood. What we can’t see is, perhaps, a similar number of planets, outshined by the light of their host star. Is there among them an Earth 2.0? Read more

24 September, 202024 September, 2020

Astronomy in Questions and Answers

Discover more about the Universe, in a Q&A session with a panel of five researchers, included in the 30th Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica. Read more

15 September, 2020

Spiral galaxies. “All we knew was wrong”

Iris Breda explains how a new study about the composition of the disk and bulge of spiral galaxies can question part of what we know about their formation and evolution. Read more

28 August, 2020

Disrupção nas nuvens de Vénus - Akatsuki

Researchers find a giant “rip” on Venus

Pedro Machado explains the importance of the discovery of a giant disruption in the atmosphere of Venus and the reason why it was only discovered now. Read more

17 August, 202025 August, 2020

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