IA researchers among the most influential worldwide in 2021Published 17 October, 2022 in Outreach
The newest version of the world ranking of most cited researchers includes seven researchers of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA).
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read more ❯ Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmospherePublished 13 October, 2022 in Outreach
The team, lead by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, discovered barium in the atmosphere of ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b.
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read more ❯ Two rare super-mercuries discovered around the same starPublished 27 September, 2022 in Outreach
Led by researchers at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, the discovery of these two exoplanets in the same system provides clues about how planets like Mercury are formed.
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read more ❯ Planet hunter with portuguese DNA reveals its first imagesPublished 27 June, 2022 in Outreach
The NIRPS spectrograph, developed and build with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, will observe the Universe in infrared, thus complementing visible band spectrographs like...
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