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18 February, 202517 February, 2025

First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere

In an article published today in Nature, a team, with several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, was able to map three separate layers in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-121b Read more

28 January, 2025

ESPRESSO detects super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star

The exoplanet HD 20974 d, discovered by a team that includes several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, has an orbit Read more

19 December, 202419 December, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope offers best glimpse into the ice of the early Solar System

A team that includes an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify, categorize its chemistry, dynamics and place of birth of a few Trans-Neptunian Objects Read more

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

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30 October, 2024 Lisboa

Pavilhão do Conhecimento and Ciências ULisboa

Evento público consórcio Ariel Lisboa 2024

Ariel space mission public events

Upon the annual meeting of the Ariel space mission consortium in Lisbon, two public events were organised to present to a wider audience the telescope that will study the atmosphere of planets around other stars in the next decade.

Free entrance

26 October, 2024 Sintra

Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval

The Universe around the clock – special event in Sintra

Nine scientists go on stage and take the audience on a journey across the Solar System and to the edge of the Universe, in an astronomy outreach show of current science made in Portugal.

Free entrance

Resources and Contents

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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