Rare super-mercury discovered
With data from NASA’s Kepler space mission and ESO’s HARPS and CORALIE spectrographs, a team lead by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências
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News
CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
This research, lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher Susana Barros, is the first time that the deformation of an
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Unique Star catalog made available by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciência dos Espaço
The SWEET-Cat catalog, created and made available by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, allows the exoplanet community to access high
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ESPRESSO spectrograph meausures fundamental constant of the Universe
The ESPRESSO spectrograph, installed at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, was recently used to measure the fine-structure constant, one of the
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Activities
Upcoming activities
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Ruído – a show about gravitational waves
Watch Ruído (Noise), a science outreach show about gravitational waves at the Porto Planetarium CCV.
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Space climate: Storm in orbit
The Sun, that quiet disc in the blue sky, is sometimes the source of extreme events that menace our highly technological society. IA researchers answer questions in a live session dedicated to space climate.
IA at the European Researchers’ Night 2021
From Earth to Space, IA's activities are framed within both European Researcher's Night initiatives in 2021 – science for climate, and environment and sustainability. Among our offer of online and physical activities at Planetário do Porto, Lisbon and Coimbra, there's action and knowledge in IA's programme.
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Galactic Archeology and the raiders of the endless treasures of the Milky Way
Like any other galaxy, this enormous group of stars, gas and dust that we call Milky Way is today very different from what it was in a distant past. Discover how a galactic archeologist tries to reveal its past.
The Universe
From dream to reality: engineering for Space
How to plan, design and build instruments to be used in astronomy? Between the curiosity about the Universe and high precision engineering, listen to Alexandre Cabral, of IAstro, in conversation at Antena 1 (in Portuguese).
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Space 2022: The new year through the telescope
Learn what will come from above in the new year. IA researchers anticipate discoveries and significant leaps in several domains in the study of the Universe.
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James Webb Space Telescope: high definition Science also for Portugal
The new James Webb space telescope is a jewel of technology, and starting from 2022 will reveal a sharper, deeper and older Universe. Its main window of observation is infrared light, produced by warm or cool bodies and environments, targets of many lines of research by the Portuguese scientific community.
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Threats to the Earth: asteroids, comets and space debris
Discover how asteroids, comets and space debris can represent threats to the Earth and how can we deal with them, in the company of Nuno Peixinho, of IA and FCTUC.
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