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PhD::SPACE student wins Humboldt fellowship
Published 8 November, 2019 in Outreach

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Benard Nsamba was awarded a prestigious individual fellowship, worth 100 000€, attributed by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, to be hosted at... read more ❯
Gaia-ESO survey helps to estimate the age of giant stars
Published 27 September, 2019 in Outreach

With data from this survey, partly analyzed by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), researchers determined that the C/N abundance ratio can be used to estimate the... read more ❯
TESS first light on stellar physics
Published 5 June, 2019 in Outreach

Imagem artística do telescópio de pesquisa de trânsitos de exoplanetas (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS), da NASA.

Using asteroseismic1 techniques, an international team searched for pulsations in a subsample of five thousand stars, from the 32 thousand observed in short cadence in the first two sectors (roughly... read more ❯
Discovery of a nova remnant confirms 2,000-year-old observation
Published 3 May, 2019 in Outreach

Sobreposição de dados do MUSE numa imagem do enxame M22, obtida pelo telescópio espacial Hubble.

This discovery, with the participation of a researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), confirms one of the oldest observations to reach present day, measured by... read more ❯
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