Themes: Solar System
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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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“ET – A Solar System Adventure” board game
At school or with the family, the IA invites everyone to explore different worlds in the Solar System, some of which real targets
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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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Three super-earths and two super-mercuries
On the Palavra de Cientista podcast, Susana Barros tells us about a planetary system with some very rare and peculiar planets.
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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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More than 100 stars with orbiting worlds
An IA team selected planets already known to be orbiting other stars (exoplanets) and which are interesting targets to learn more about them. Search in this sky map for their host stars and learn what we have already discovered about them.
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How to discover an exoplanet?
Planets that orbit other stars are tens or even hundreds of light-years from Earth. How can astronomers find them? Explore these interactive infographics that explain some of the concepts and methods.
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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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