News

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

10 July, 2024

Agreement for the construction of telescope made in Portugal was signed

The agreement to install the PoET solar telescope in ESO’s Paranal Observatory was recently signed by ESO’s director general and the board of Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, as host institution for the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço. Read more

Conceção artística de um objeto gelado na região do Sistema Solar designada Cintura de Kuiper

20 June, 202419 June, 2024

“Dry ice” found in fossils from the Solar System infancy

Observations with the James Webb telescope and the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) revealed carbon dioxide in the ices beyond Neptune, which may inform studies on the origin of life on Earth Read more

5 June, 2024

ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT

The construction of the ANDES spectrograph, to be installed in the largest telescope of the next generation, ESO’s ELT, has a strong participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço. Read more

5 April, 202429 April, 2024

First ‘glory’ on hellish distant world?

Led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, the team used ESA’s Cheops space telescope to observe potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ in the exoplanet WASP-76b Read more

Activities

Upcoming activities

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Past activities

8 - 26 July, 2024 In-person and online

In-person and online

IA Summer Program 2024

How for do you dare to go? IA Summer Program is your gateway to Space. Targeted at university students. From 8 to 26 July. Applications due by 3 June.

Free entrance

1 - 9 June, 2024 Lisboa

Feira do Livro – Parque Eduardo VII

The Universe in the Lisbon Book Fair 2024

Under the usual partnership with Gradiva publishing, IA organises several activities during the Lisbon Book Fair 2024, among family hands-on activities and talks with scientists.

Free entrance

Resources and Contents

Davi Barbosa na Feira do Livro de Lisboa 2024 (parceria Gradiva)

Galaxies – a collection of portraits

Davi Barbosa, PhD researcher at IA, took the public at the Lisbon Book Fair on a journey about how Humankind discovered more than a trillion galaxies besides our own Milky Way. Read more

18 June, 202418 June, 2024

Technologies to uncover the deep Universe

Four IA researchers talked about the deep Universe and the technologies being developed to uncover its secrets. Read more

18 June, 202418 June, 2024

Space exploration and extraction of resources – IA researchers at Biosfera

Space probes and telescopes on Earth extract information about other worlds in the Solar System. Three IA researchers talk about the benefits and challenges os Space exploration, in the Biosfera TV programme. Read more

31 May, 2024

O que se esconde na luz? - Euclid e o Universo invisível

“What hides in the light?” documentary

In this 20 minutes-documentary, IA researchers explain the science and future of the Euclid space mission, and several of this space telescope goals, from the enigmas of the invisible matter to the evolution of galaxies, are presented and illustrated. Read more

28 May, 202419 June, 2024

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