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TESS reveals an improbable planet
Published 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 sizes
Published 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 worlds
Published 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 frost
Published 10 May, 2019 in Outreach

Atmosfera de Plutão, observada pela sonda New Horizons, da NASA, em julho de 2015.

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. This study was published... read more ❯
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