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Desert nights – guided visit to Chilean observatories
In a new video she filmed in Chile, Ana Rita Silva, PhD researcher at IA and Porto University, guides us on a visit to two observatories – La Silla and Paranal, of the European Sourthern Observatory – and tells us how discoveries about planets light-years away from the Solar System are made.
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Galaxies – a collection of portraits
Davi Barbosa, PhD researcher at IA, took the public at the Lisbon Book Fair on a journey about how Humankind discovered more than a trillion galaxies besides our own Milky Way.
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Technologies to uncover the deep Universe
Four IA researchers talked about the deep Universe and the technologies being developed to uncover its secrets.
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Space exploration and extraction of resources – IA researchers at Biosfera
Space probes and telescopes on Earth extract information about other worlds in the Solar System. Three IA researchers talk about the benefits and challenges os Space exploration, in the Biosfera TV programme.
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“What hides in the light?” documentary
In this 20 minutes-documentary, IA researchers explain the science and future of the Euclid space mission, and several of this space telescope goals, from the enigmas of the invisible matter to the evolution of galaxies, are presented and illustrated.
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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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