From Venus to other worldsPublished 10 October, 2019 in Outreach
Unprecedented precision in the measurements of winds on Venus made use of an instrument built to study exoplanets, in a work led by researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências...
read more ❯ On Pluto the Winter is approaching, and the atmosphere is vanishing into frostPublished 10 May, 2019 in Outreach
A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
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read more ❯ Kepler space telescope confirms its first detection, ten years laterPublished 5 March, 2019 in Outreach
The confirmation of exoplanet candidate Kepler-1658 b, a hot jupiter 2545 light-years away, had the participation of a researcher from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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read more ❯ A super earth in the Solar System's neighborhoodPublished 19 February, 2019 in Outreach
The discovery of super earth Gl411b, only eight light-years away, with three times the mass of the Earth, had the participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA)...
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