TESS reveals an improbable planetPublished 29 October, 2019 in Outreach
Using asteroseismic1 data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Tiago Campante, studied the red-giant stars...
read more ❯ Astrophysicists use artificial intelligence to determine exoplanets sizesPublished 11 October, 2019 in Outreach
A team of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers developed a way to constrain the radius of an exoplanet knowing its mass, using a machine learning technique.
A team...
read more ❯ 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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