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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Eleven ideas make all there is, and are one click away
On a single website, there’s everything you need to know about Astronomy and the Universe, in direct and everyday language, the yield of a project co-led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and which now becomes an international reference.
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July was a month for Summer internships
The IAstro Summer Internship program, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and aimed at university students, had its second edition this year.
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Rocky exoplanet with just half the mass of Venus discovered
The team, which includes several resesarchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), shed new light on the exoplanets orbiting the
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Unique exoplanet photobombs Cheops study of nearby star system
While exploring two exoplanets in the bright nearby star Nu2 Lupi, ESA’s Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing
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Asteroid named after Portuguese astrophysicist
The asteroid (40210) 1998 SL56 is now designated (40210) Peixinho, the name of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) and University of Coimbra researcher.
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