Themes: Stars and nebulae
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100 years ago, the Milky Way was displaced from the centre of the Universe
Precisely a century ago, the New York Times newspaper announced that the Andromeda nebula was after all another “island universe”, so big or even bigger than the Milky Way. The Universe had just increased tenfold.
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Most detailed map of our galaxy in infrared
Thirteen years of observations led to the most detailed map of Milky Way. Nanda Kumar, an IA collaborator, talked to the podcast Palavra de Cientista about it.
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From Azores to the Universe
A PhD student at IA contributed to launching the astrophyskcal observations programme of the RAEGE-Az radiotelescope, on Santa Maria island, Azores.
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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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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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Interactive microsite “Music of the Stars”
Explore, through interactive diagrams, some of the concepts of the physics of the stars
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First images of the Orion Nebula by the JWST
In the podcast Palavra de Cientista, Sílvia Vicente shows us the importance of the most recent images of the Orion Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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