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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1000 planets’ telescope proceeds to construction
The European Space Agency validated the design of the scientific instruments of the Ariel space mission, which has an important participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA)
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Name of Portuguese astrophysicist shines in the nightsky
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) named an asteroid after an astrophysicist from the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA).
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Exoplanet in orbit of a red giant star escapes destruction
The planet 8 UMi b, also known as Halla, seems to have survived the expansion of its host star to red giant phase. This discovery, published in the prestigious journal Nature, has the participation of a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço.
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