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IA researchers among the most influential worldwide in 2021
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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Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
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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Two rare super-mercuries discovered around the same star
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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Planet hunter with portuguese DNA reveals its first images
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... read more ❯
