New planet detected around star closest to the Sun
The exoplanet, named Proxima d, was detected by a team lead by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, and is
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Rare super-mercury discovered
With data from NASA’s Kepler space mission and ESO’s HARPS and CORALIE spectrographs, a team lead by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências
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CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
This research, lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher Susana Barros, is the first time that the deformation of an
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Unique Star catalog made available by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciência dos Espaço
The SWEET-Cat catalog, created and made available by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, allows the exoplanet community to access high
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ESPRESSO spectrograph measures fundamental constant of the Universe
The ESPRESSO spectrograph, installed at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, was recently used to measure the fine-structure constant, one of the
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IA researchers among the most influential worldwide in 2020
The world ranking of the most cited researchers has been updated, and includes six researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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Measuring the stars: an essential step to learn how the other “Earths” are like
An international team, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), is defining the way PLATO mission, of European Space Agency (ESA), will extract the maximum amount of information from a set of the satellite’s target stars.
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New research links the compositions of rocky exoplanets and of their host stars
Led by a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), this work was published today in the journal Science.
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