Cosmic Tsunami brings galaxies back to life
David Sobral, from the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), and an international team, found that colossal shock waves rise galaxies from the dead.
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News
First Exoplanet Visible Light Spectrum
20 years after its discovery, researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) managed to directly observe exoplanet 51 Pegasi b.
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Half a century mystery unveiled in the atmosphere of Venus
The mysterious “Y” shaped cloud in the atmosphere of Venus was, for the first time, explained in a study that counts with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA).
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“Astro-archeology” reveals ancient system with 5 earth-sized exoplanets
An international team, which includes researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), detected five ancient exoplanets in the Kepler-444 system, with sizes between Mercury and Venus.
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Space Sciences rated Excellent in Portugal
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) received a rating of Excellent in the evaluation of national research centers, which the Portuguese science foundation (FCT) ordered to the European Science Foundation (ESF).
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Activities
Upcoming activities
Since the dawn of time
Here, in the Universe series
On the fourth and last talk of the series “Aqui, no Universo”, Fábio Silva, of Bournemouth University, and Luís Tirapicos, of Ciências Ulisboa, will present archaeoastronomy, the science that studies the many meanings it had, across the ages, the expression “to understand the Universe and our place in it”.
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8th Concentration of Telescopes in Moimenta da Beira
The 8th Concentration of Telescopes in Moimenta da Beira will bring together the largest number of telescopes to observe the stars more closely, and IA is a partner in the event.
Resources and Contents
The origin of the Leap Year
Learn the origin of this concept used to count time and build the calendars we use today. Article by Daniel Folha, of IA, on National Geographic Portugal.
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Deepen solar physics using artificial intelligence
Conversation with Ricardo Gafeira, of the Universidade de Coimbra and IA, in the podcast “Palavra de Cientista” about the article he co-authored “Machine learning in solar physics”.
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Inside the coldest places of the Universe
Dark molecular clouds are nebulae that do not emit nor reflect any visible light. Inside them we find a surprising chemical laboratory, that even produces alcohol molecules.
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Euclid and the invisible Universe – two conversations
Ismael Tereno and António da Silva, both researchers at IA, talked about the Euclid space mission and the 95 percent of the Universe still unknown – the dark matter and the dark energy – to Antena 1 public radio and Palavra de Cientista podcast.
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