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
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Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected
Led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, the team used one of the most advanced spectrographs in the world to detect solar-like oscillations in an orange dwarf star
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Saturn’s moon is a testing ground for finding life beyond the Solar System
A team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used Titan’s atmosphere as a natural laboratory to deepen the chemistry of methane, a molecule that, on Earth, may be a byproduct of life.
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Ultraviolet light from massive stars may prevent the formation of giant planets
Huge superluminous stars may force young stars of low mass to live nearly alone, without the company of giant planets, a study with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) confirms.
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The largest ever image of the Universe began to be photographed today
Following the plan of observations led by researchers of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), the Euclid space telescope, 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, started today the assembling of a mosaic of 27,500 pieces.
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Will this new solar maximum solve the puzzle of the Sun’s gamma-ray picture?
The Sun’s polar regions were the most active emitting high energy radiation during the previous solar maximum, an imbalance yet to be explained, and reported for the first time in a study led by Bruno Arsioli, of IA
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Jupiter was the target of exoplanet hunter
For the first time, an instrument to detect planets light-years away was used on an object within the Solar System, in a study on the winds of Jupiter by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA)
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Rare giant exoplanets discovered around giant stars
In two recent scientific papers, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, several “jupiters” were found around giant and intermediate
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