Six new worlds discovered adrift in a cradle of stars
An international team with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used the James Webb telescope to find planetary-mass objects, but freely moving in interstellar space.
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World experts in asteroseismology gather in international conference in Porto
The largest conference in the field of asteroseismology is organized by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, and is being held in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
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Agreement for the construction of telescope made in Portugal was signed
The agreement to install the PoET solar telescope in ESO’s Paranal Observatory was recently signed by ESO’s director general and the board of Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, as host institution for the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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“Dry ice” found in fossils from the Solar System infancy
Observations with the James Webb telescope and the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) revealed carbon dioxide in the ices beyond Neptune, which may inform studies on the origin of life on Earth
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ESO signs agreement for ANDES instrument on the ELT
The construction of the ANDES spectrograph, to be installed in the largest telescope of the next generation, ESO’s ELT, has a strong participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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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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