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1 October, 202428 November, 2024

Scientists discover exoplanet orbiting closest single star to our Sun

Barnard b, an exoplanet with half the mass of Venus, was discovered by a team that includes several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers Read more

26 September, 202430 September, 2024

Most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way revealed

This map is the result of two observational surveys, spanning over more than 13 years, that had the participation of an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço collaborator Read more

5 September, 20244 September, 2024

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço paves the way in the field of Exoclimatology

Three papers about “hot jupiter” WASP-76 b, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, will be the foundation for understanding the global climate of a giant exoplanet Read more

Conceção artística de um planeta nómada, ou errante, com a nebulosa NGC 1333 apresentada em fundo. Os planetas errantes, n

27 August, 202426 August, 2024

Six new worlds discovered adrift in a cradle of stars

An international team with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used the James Webb telescope to find planetary-mass objects, but freely moving in interstellar space. Read more

15 July, 202415 July, 2024

World experts in asteroseismology gather in international conference in Porto

The largest conference in the field of asteroseismology is organized by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, and is being held in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto 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

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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