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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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Do black holes have the answer to the accelerated expansion of the Universe?
An international team, with the participation of the IA, suggests that the mass of black holes increases with the scale of the Universe, and might be concentrations of dark energy.
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How to detect far away planets?
In clear and accessible language, methods and concepts such as spectroscopy, radial velocities, photometry, electromagnetic spectrum or Doppler effect are explained and deconstructed by Ana Rita Silva from the IA and FCUP.
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A portrait of the heart of Milky Way
IA’s views on Sagittarius A*
There’s a colossus at the heart of Milky Way. IA researchers and collaborators take us on to the territories of gravity, high energy physics, and cosmology.
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The Proxima worlds: our galactic neighbours
A conversation with four IA researchers on the most likely destination for the first interstellar mission – the three worlds around Proxima Centauri (the closest star to the Sun), the most recent discovered by a team led by an IAstro researcher. A conversation with infographics by IA and a selection of video clips by ESO.
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Threats to the Earth: asteroids, comets and space debris
Discover how asteroids, comets and space debris can represent threats to the Earth and how can we deal with them, in the company of Nuno Peixinho, of IA and FCTUC.
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How to see a starry sky in the city again
Raul Lima, of IA and Instituto Politécnico do Porto, talked to Porto Canal about light pollution and how to solve it through simple habits (in Portuguese).
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Eyes on the sky
What will we see, discover and learn, with the James Webb Space Telescope, about the distant objects at the edges of the Solar System? Nuno Peixinho, of IA and University of Coimbra, talked to Fundação Francisco Manuel do Santos (in Portuguese).
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