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First ‘glory’ on hellish distant world?
Published 5 April, 2024 in Outreach

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 ❯
Tiniest “starquakes” ever detected
Published 26 March, 2024 in Outreach

At a distance of 11.9 light years, Epsilon Indi (ε Indi) is an orange dwarf star (also known as a K dwarf) with 71% of the Sun’s diameter. An international... read more ❯
Ultraviolet light from massive stars may prevent the formation of giant planets
Published 1 March, 2024 in Outreach

Conceção artística de uma estrela quente e azul, com vinte cinco vezes mais massa do que o Sol, e de um planeta semelhante a Júpiter.

Huge superluminous stars may force young stars of low mass to live nearly alone, without the company of giant planets, according to a study led by Olivier Berné, of the... read more ❯
Will this new solar maximum solve the puzzle of the Sun’s gamma-ray picture?
Published 7 February, 2024 in Outreach

Gráfico da densidade, codificada por cores, de raios gama com energias entre 5 e 150 gigaeletrões-volt por fotão, emitidos pelo Sol entre outubro de 2013 e janeiro de 2015

The Sun’s polar regions were the most active emitting high energy radiation during the previous solar maximum, an imbalance yet to be explained, and reported for the first time in... read more ❯
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