Portugal involved in the construction of instruments for the largest telescope in the world
HIRES and MOS will be two of the main instruments for the biggest telescope of the next generation, ESO’s E-ELT, and have a strong involvement of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Ignite Astro tour
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço will tour the country and bring the Universe to places with lesser access to science outreach.
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Know the people at IA
Upon the first anniversary of IA, we introduced some of our researchers. Learn more about each of them.
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Half of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates are false positives
A 5-year study, led by Alexandre Santerne from the ExoEarths team at IA, found that most of these false positives were eclipsing binaries.
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Rocky exoplanet with atmosphere detected in the neighborhood of the Solar System
Nuno Cardoso Santos, from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), participated in the discovery of the “exoVenus” GJ 1132b, announced today in Nature.
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International competition can give portuguese names to exoplanets
Lusitânia, Caravela, Adamastor, Esperança and Saudade are the names proposed by Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva, with support from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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Stellar atmosphere can be used to predict the composition of rocky exoplanets
These results, obtained by researchers from the ExoEarths team at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), also allows for a better understanding of the frequency of habitable planets in our galaxy.
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Gas giant in baby star
The discovery of evidence of Hot Jupiters around newly-born stars, is co-authored by Pedro Figueira, from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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