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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Black holes are missing in the early Universe, and computers are after them
Forthcoming sky surveys with radio telescopes will capture millions of galaxies at the beginning of the Universe, but only automatic tools, like the algorithm created by a team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), might read this data deluge and find the galaxies with massive black holes at their centre.
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CHEOPS mission extension has begun
Several researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço have leadership roles in this mission from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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A deeper understanding of solar physics with the help of machine learning
There’s a great potential in the application of machine learning to the prediction of extreme solar events, or to the study of internal processes within our star, states a research article co-authored by a researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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