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The “Born-Again Dynamo” of the Sun’s Elder Twin
Led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, the team made new magnetic measurements of β Hydri, a star analogous to the future Sun, to reveal surprising activity.
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Portugal hosts the world’s largest conference on space weather.
The world’s largest conference on the perturbations from Space and their social and economical impact takes place in Coimbra and is co-organized by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences... read more ❯
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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Activities
Upcoming activities
Past activities
Stars Day 4.5
Fourth instalment of the Stars Day x.5 series.
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PhD Viva — Thibault Boulet
Thibault Boulet's PhD viva.
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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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