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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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