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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Dark Energy Survey reveals that the Universe is just slightly less clumpy than predicted
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which includes a researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), created the most precise map, so far, of the shapes and the distribution of the galaxies in the Universe.
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New pole of IA in the University of Coimbra
With the creation of the University of Coimbra pole, the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is now present in three
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Going up is the new move on Venus
The largest ever quest for atmospheric wave patterns on the night side of Venus, and a new window onto vertical winds, are the two recent major insights into the super rotating cloud level of the planet, made by researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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