Themes: Telescopes and instruments
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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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![Alexandre Cabral e Pedro Santos inspecionam a estrutura de interface do MOONS com o telescópio do VLT, antes de a colocarem na posição final horizontal.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/img_20200630_113342-388x220.jpg)
From dream to reality: engineering for Space
How to plan, design and build instruments to be used in astronomy? Between the curiosity about the Universe and high precision engineering, listen to Alexandre Cabral, of IAstro, in conversation at Antena 1 (in Portuguese).
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![Imagem artística do sistema exoplanetário TOI-178.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Fig1-388x218.jpg)
Space 2022: The new year through the telescope
Learn what will come from above in the new year. IA researchers anticipate discoveries and significant leaps in several domains in the study of the Universe.
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![Os 18 segmentos do espelho de 6,5 metros de diâmetro do telescópio espacial James Webb.](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/JamesWebb-388x218.jpeg)
James Webb Space Telescope: high definition Science also for Portugal
The new James Webb space telescope is a jewel of technology, and starting from 2022 will reveal a sharper, deeper and older Universe. Its main window of observation is infrared light, produced by warm or cool bodies and environments, targets of many lines of research by the Portuguese scientific community.
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![Método das velocidades radiais](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/vel-radiais-388x218.jpg)
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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![Olhos no espaço, conferência com Nuno Peixinho](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/nunopeixinho2-388x218.jpg)
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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From the mountain top to the Cosmos
Experience a virtual guided tour of the Paranal Mountain, with a view onto the cosmic ocean, and get to know from the inside the observatory facilities and its large telescopes.
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![Primeiros passos para uma grande descoberta](https://divulgacao.iastro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Primeiros-passos-para-uma-grande-descoberta-388x218.jpg)
First Steps to a Great Discovery
Get acquainted with the Zooniverse.org plaform, which allows anyone to do science whenever and wherever, in the company of three IA researchers: João Faria, Lara Sousa and Israel Matute.
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