Unique exoplanet photobombs Cheops study of nearby star system
While exploring two exoplanets in the bright nearby star Nu2 Lupi, ESA’s Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing
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Going up is the new move on Venus
The largest ever quest for atmospheric wave patterns on the night side of Venus, and a new window onto vertical winds, are the two recent major insights into the super rotating cloud level of the planet, made by researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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IA research project featured by the European Union
The European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), has featured IA’s project PULSATION in its “Results in Brief”. CORDIS is the European Commission’s primary source of results for all projects funded by the EU’s framework programmes for research and innovation.
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Six-exoplanet system challenges current planet forming theories
Using a combination of telescopes, including EOS’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and ESA’s CHEOPS space mission, astronomers have revealed a system consisting of
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ESPRESSO spectrograph studies exoplanetary atmospheres
The results, which will soon be published in three papers with the participation of several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA)
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Ariel mission formally adopted by the European Space Agency
This ESA mission, the first dedicated to study the nature, formation and evolution of exoplanets, has a strong participation of several researchers from Instituto
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A water world in another planetary system
An international team, including several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), studied in detail the LHS 1140 system and
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First results from CHEOPS reveal peculiar star and extreme exoplanet
The exoplanet WASP-189 b, detected by a team including several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researchers, has a temperature of
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