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Unique Star catalog made available by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciência dos Espaço
The SWEET-Cat catalog, created and made available by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, allows the exoplanet community to access high precision homogeneous stellar parameters of over nine... read more ❯
Measuring the stars: an essential step to learn how the other “Earths” are like
An international team, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), is defining the way the European Space Agency's (ESA) PLATO mission will extract the maximum amount... read more ❯
New research links the compositions of rocky exoplanets and of their host stars
Led by a researcher from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), this work was published today in the journal Science. It shows that, although the composition between... read more ❯
Unique exoplanet photobombs Cheops study of nearby star system
While exploring two exoplanets in the bright nearby star Nu2 Lupi, ESA’s Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing the face of the star. The analisys... read more ❯