Travelling in Space on a ride with books
Motivating children and young people to Astronomy and Space Sciences through inspiring readings is the goal of Ler+ Espaço (‘Read more Space’), a national project on its second round, in partnership with Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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PhD::SPACE student wins Humboldt fellowship
For his contributions to the understanding of stellar interiors, Benard Nsamba, of IA, was awarded a prestigious fellowship to support the pursuit of his research at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, in Germany.
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TESS reveals an improbable planet
Using asteroseismology, a team, led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher, studied two red-giant stars known to have exoplanets, and in one of them found a seemingly improbable planet.
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Astrophysicists use artificial intelligence to determine exoplanets sizes
A team of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers developed a way to constrain the radius of an exoplanet knowing its mass, using a machine learning technique.
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From Venus to other worlds
Unprecedented precision in the measurements of winds on Venus made use of an instrument built to study exoplanets, in a work led by researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Astronomers observe a Cosmic Jellyfish
An international team, with the participation of an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher, used data from the ALMA radiotelescope to produce a detailed map of the gas tails of the ESO137-001 galaxy.
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Gaia-ESO survey helps to estimate the age of giant stars
With data from this survey, partly analyzed by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), researchers determined that the C/N abundance ratio can be used to estimate the age of giant stars.
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A new measurement technique found at the frontier between Physics and Astronomy
The scattering of laser light in the atmosphere enables the measurement of the accuracy of astronomical spectrographs, through a technique demonstrated for the first time with the participation of researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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