Searching for New Worlds
In one more session of “The Universe Online”, Nuno Santos and Susana Barros, IA researchers, answered questions from the participants about the search for another “Earth”.
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Crazy facts about the Universe (and what they tell us about the Earth)
IA participated in the 2020 edition of the Junior Fest with the quizz “Crazy facts about the Universe (and what they tell us about the Earth)”. Watch the video!
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Black Holes: The most secret places in the Universe
Let’s review the historical journey that is taking us more and more closer to the secrets of black holes, width Francisco Lobo, of IA.
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51 Pegasi b – 25 years
In October 2020, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star – 51 Pegasi b
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Fasten your seat belt: Portugal is heading to other Earths
“Portuguese team discovers another ‘Earth’ and finds hints of existing life.” This title may look like from a sci-fi book, but Nuno C. Santos, of IA, says we are not that far from making it real.
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How many Earths are there in the Milky Way?
In a clear night sky, the human eye can see some 3000 stars, all of them in our galactic neighbourhood. What we can’t see is, perhaps, a similar number of planets, outshined by the light of their host star. Is there among them an Earth 2.0?
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Astronomy in Questions and Answers
Discover more about the Universe, in a Q&A session with a panel of five researchers, included in the 30th Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica.
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Spiral galaxies. “All we knew was wrong”
Iris Breda explains how a new study about the composition of the disk and bulge of spiral galaxies can question part of what we know about their formation and evolution.
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