European Space Weather Week 2024
The European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is the main annual event in the European Space Weather and Space Climate calendar.
Latest news
Most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way revealed
This map is the result of two observational surveys, spanning over more than 13 years, that had the participation of an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço collaborator.
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Six new worlds discovered adrift in a cradle of stars
An international team with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used the James Webb telescope to find planetary-mass objects, but freely moving in interstellar space.
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World experts in asteroseismology gather in international conference in Porto
The largest conference in the field of asteroseismology is organized by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, and is being held in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto.
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First ‘glory’ on hellish distant world?
Led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher, the team used ESA's Cheops space telescope to observe potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ in the... read more ❯
Activities
Upcoming activities
Stars Day 2024
2024 edition of Stars Day, an annual science meeting highlighting the work conducted by Group members and fostering debate.
Free registration
Past activities
MSc Viva — Rúben Costa
Rúben Costa's MSc viva.
Free registration
Porto Summer School on Asteroseismology: From Pixels to Stellar Ages
This is an international advanced school, addressing topics at the forefront of research in stellar physics, namely, asteroseismology.
Projects
ANDES@ELT
ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) is the planned high-resolution (R ~ 100,000) spectrograph for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) operating at visible
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SPIRou@CFHT
SPIRou (SPectropolarimètre InfraROUge) is a near-infrared spectropolarimeter and high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). It is a near-infrared fiber-fed, double-pass cross-dispersed spectrograph, based
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