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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. Read more

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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.
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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.
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