News

Latest press releases

MOONS opens a thousand eyes to observe the Universe
Published 3 September, 2026 in Outreach

This new spectrograph at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) benefits from significant Portuguese scientific and technological input and was developed in partnership with the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências Espaciais. ESO... read more ❯
Telescope made in Portugal starts operations in Chile
Published 9 April, 2026 in Outreach

A team from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço successfully concluded the installation of the first solar telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory. Designed to support the search for... read more ❯

Activities

Upcoming activities

There are no new activities planned yet.

Past activities

ANDES SE meeting

IA will host a closed meeting of the ANDES System engineers and crucial people towards the documents preparation of the PDR. The meeting will be held in Lisbon, at the Faculty of Sciences between July 9 and 11, 2024.
Free registration

ANDES Front-End meeting

The Front-End team of ANDES, including the SCAO and IFU subsystems will meet in Porto on December 11 and 12, 2023. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the mass, volume, and different functions of the front-end. The different architects of ANDES are also expected to participate.
Free registration

ANDES SAR

The first evaluation process of ANDES was recently held at the ESO headquarters in Garching. The project managers, as well as the system engineers of ANDES, all met together with the ESO reviewers to perform the System Architecture Review of ANDES.
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Projects

SHABAR

SHABAR [Other] (SHAdow BAnd Range) is a solar seeing measurement instrument that we are implementing in the context of the Paranal solar Espresso Read more

EUCLID

Euclid [ESA] is ESA’s mission dedicated to the exploration of the dark universe through the measurement of the properties of the cosmological large-scale Read more

ARIEL

ARIEL [ESA], the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, is one of the three candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for Read more