Revealed – and commented – the first images of the Euclid mission
Three IA researchers and members of the Euclid Consortium comment the first coloured images of the Euclid space mission. Dive into these images and learn about them in detail in the article published on National Geographic Portugal.
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Caught in the cosmic web – from galaxies to super-clusters
Galaxies like to be together and socialize, sometimes to the thousands. In galaxy clusters some are dominant, but what keeps them together can’t be seen. Article by Davi Barbosa on National Geographic Portugal
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Unearthing fossils from the Big Bang: the Cosmic Microwave Background
There’s a light that fills the whole Universe. It’s the oldest light. As a fossil, it is an image with information about the origins and up to the first galaxies, explains Elsa Teixeira, in her article published in the National Geographic Portugal magazine.
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Venus and other cosmic neighbours and missions to explore them
In an interview for the podcast O Futuro do Futuro from Expresso, Pedro Machado tells us about Venus, Mars and other “neighbouring” planets and moons from our cosmic backyard called Solar System, and about space missions to study them.
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Dwarf galaxies: the small inhabitants of the Cosmos
The most common galaxies in the Universe are also the smallest of them, and the hardest to study. They host secrets about how might have been born the great galaxies that we see today. An article in collaboration with National Geographic Portugal.
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Light Pollution
Light excess doesn’t occur in cities only – it reaches remote locations, such as natural reserves, affecting animals and plants, and also humans.
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Interactive microsite “Music of the Stars”
Explore, through interactive diagrams, some of the concepts of the physics of the stars
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Scientists call for the preservation of the night sky, an intangible heritage of Humankind
The night sky is becoming degraded in a dramatic way, due to human activities. Scientists are calling for the mobilization of the scientific
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