PLATO space mission gets closer to space
This European Space Agency mission, with strong involvement from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, reached a major milestone
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News
The “Born-Again Dynamo” of the Sun’s Elder Twin
Led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, the team made new magnetic measurements of β Hydri, a star analogous to the future Sun, to reveal surprising activity
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New catalogue reveals major gap in knowledge about the most extreme objects in the Universe
Using data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collected over 16 years, a team led by a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço has revealed that we do not know the distance to most of the highest-energy cosmic sources ever detected — a fact that has significant implications for our understanding of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe.
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Jarle Brinchmann is the new Director of Science of the European Southern Observatory
The until now coordinator of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço and professor at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, will
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Euclid Space Telescope reveals multiple discoveries
Based on 34 articles published today, the Euclid Consortium, which includes several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, revealed a large number of new scientific results
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Activities
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IA Summer Program 2025
How for do you dare to go? IA Summer Program is your gateway to Space. Targeted at university students. From June 30 till July 18. Applications due by May 26.
Free entrance
À descoberta do lado negro do Universo com o telescópio EUCLID
Public talk in Portuguese, given by Pedro Carrilho (University of Hertfordshire), taking place at 18:00 on Wednesday 4 June, in the Porto planetarium.
This talk is open to all, and the admission is free, subject to the venue's capacify.
Free entrance
Resources and Contents
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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