20 December, 2020

Conjunctions, occultations and other “stars of Bethlehem”: The Great Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction

This December, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close in the night sky, they will appear to merge in a single "super-star". To mark the event, the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and the Porto Planetarium - Ciência Viva Center will host an online debate, with IA researchers, about these ephemerids and their scientific and historical importance.

19 December, 2020

From the mountain top to the Cosmos

Join a virtual guided tour of the Paranal Mountain, with a view onto the cosmic ocean, and get to know from the inside the observatory facilities and its large telescopes.

28 November, 2020

Searching for New Worlds

In the next session of "The Universe Online", you will have the opportunity to talk to IA researchers that are on the frontline of the search for a new "Earth".

27 November, 2020

The IA in the 2020 European Researchers Night

The IA will get everyone moving in the ERN 2020. Solar System, planets, galaxies, gravitational waves, will be subjects to learn and discover.

24 November, 2020

IA, PNL and Planetário do Porto celebrate the 2020 National Day of Scientific Culture

On the 24th of November, the IA celebrates the National Day of Scientific Culture with several activities, in partnership with the National Reading Plan.

10 October, 2020

Buracos Negros: Os lugares mais secretos do Universo

Black Holes: the most secret places in the Universe

There might be black holes at the centre of most galaxies and they are also at the centre of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. What do we already know about these dark and secret places? Let’s review the historical journey that takes us more and more closer to their secrets.

11 September, 2020

Astronomy in Questions and Answers – Special Event ENAA 2020

What if a panel of researchers answered the questions about the Universe you have always wanted to ask but never knew who to ask them? That is what will happen on the 11th of September, in the public event of the 30th Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica (ENAA 2020).

28 September, 2015

Naming New Worlds

Vote in the system Lusitânia. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995, the International Astronomical Union launches a contest to name 20 new planetary systems

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