CoAstro: an Astronomy “condo”
CoAstro is a project that gathers, side-by-side, a researcher, a science communicator and a primary school teacher. Its goal? Place astronomy in the
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Travelling in Space while “riding” on books
Motivating children and youngsters for Astronomy and Space Sciences through inspiring reads is the goal of “Ler+ Espaço” (Read + Space), a national
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Extraterrestrial life on the red planet opens cycle in Centro Cultural de Belém
The possibility of life on Mars is the theme of the first talk between researchers from different fields, as part of a cycle
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A Universe Aglow
Observations made with the MUSE spectrograph, with the collaboration of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), allowed for direct detection of the invisible glow of Lyman-alpha emission, from dim clouds of hydrogen in the early Universe.
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IA at the Light Festival
Between September 21st and 23rd, the town of Cascais becomes illuminated with another edition of Lumina – Light Festival. Artistic creations exploring light
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Uncovering the birthplace of the Sun in the Milky Way
An international team, which includes the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Vardan Adibekyan, has discovered a way to estimate
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Mars 2030
The reasons to send humans on a journey to Mars and the challenges it poses are the theme for a series of conversations with researchers in interaction with the audience.
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Groundbreaking study sheds new light on galaxy evolution
Researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) have found strong indications that the two different types of bulges in the center of spiral galaxies are not the result of distinct formation processes, but actually the opposite ends of a continuous formation timescale, inversely related to the total mass of the galaxy.
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