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IA collaborator receives award from Fundação Eng. António de Almeida
The award was attributed for the best thesis in physical sciences, for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021
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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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James Webb Space Telescope reveals unprecedented details of a stellar nursery
An international team that includes a collaborator from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured by the James Webb... read more ❯
